News and media
BBC News
One of the longest-running public RSS feeds on the web, and a reliable reference for what a conventional RSS 2.0 document looks like.
The BBC's feeds have been at essentially this shape for two decades, which makes them a good baseline: if your reader handles this one badly, the problem is yours.
It carries the media extensions for thumbnails alongside the core elements, so it also shows what a feed looks like once extension namespaces are in play.
- Publisher
- BBC
- Host
feeds.bbci.co.uk- Format
- RSS 2.0
- Root when listed
- rss (2026-08-18)
- Size when listed
- 25.2 KB
What the last check saw
Fetched and parsed, 25.2 KB.Checked 2026-08-18 16:03 UTC
Structure
- Root element
rss- Detected as
- rss
- Nodes
- 253
- Namespaces
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/http://www.w3.org/2005/Atomhttp://search.yahoo.com/mrss/
/rss×1/rss/channel×1/rss/channel/title×1/rss/channel/description×1/rss/channel/link×1/rss/channel/image×1/rss/channel/image/url×1/rss/channel/image/title×1/rss/channel/image/link×1/rss/channel/generator×1/rss/channel/lastBuildDate×1/rss/channel/atom:link×1
Recent checks
- ok2026-08-18 16:03 UTC
- ok2026-08-18 16:01 UTC
Where it reaches
- FormatsRSS 2.0The baseline this feed has kept to for twenty years.
- NamespacesMedia RSSThe extension namespace used for thumbnails.
Also in this category
- New York Times front pageA large, extension-heavy news feed — Dublin Core, media, and per-item categories on top of the RSS core.
- NPR newsA broadcaster's feed carrying audio enclosures alongside text items.
- Hacker News front pageAbout as small as a useful RSS feed gets: a title, a link, a comments link, and nothing else.
- Ars TechnicaA full-content feed: whole articles delivered inside content:encoded rather than a summary and a link.
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