RSS Data Feeds

Our RSS feeds are in RSS version 1.0 format. Our intention is to eventually move everyone over to using our REST API rather than using these feeds, but they are not going away any time soon.

Most of the interesting content is provided via our custom RSS module, mod_regveg. When we talk about an "entry" in describing the elements this module defines, we are referring to a single database entry such as a restaurant, grocery, cofee shop, etc.

If you retrieve a location that contains other locations, then the feed will contain all the entries for that location and the locations it contains. For example, the feed for New York City contains all the entries for Manhattan, Brooklyn, etc.

Feeds with more than 500 entries are too large to generate dynamically, so these feeds are generated once per day.

Each <item> element will represent a single entry. The item's rdf:about attribute (and it's link element) will be a link to the main page for that item. The item's title element will be the entry's name. The item's description element will contain a short description for the entry (no more than 255 characters).

The mod_regveg module defines the following <item> elements:

A single item will probably not contain all of these elements. The only elements which are guaranteed to be present are the standard RSS 1.0 elements "title", "link", and "description".

Retrieving the Feeds

Each region has an "RSS Feed" link. If you want a feed of all the regions, then check out the site feeds.

Sample Code

Some sample code for retrieving and parsing the data feeds is available:

Example

Here is a sample data feed.