The rss component
Produces a data flow in the RSS format. Can be used to generate a podcast feed. To use this component, you must first return an HTTP header with the "application/rss+xml" content type (see http_header component). Next, you must use the shell-empty component to avoid that SQLPage generates HTML code.
Introduced in SQLPage v0.20.0.
Top-level parameters
description
REQUIRED. Describes the channel.
link
REQUIRED. Defines the hyperlink to the channel.
title
REQUIRED. Defines the title of the channel.
author
Defines the group, person, or people responsible for creating the channel.
category
Defines the category of the channel. The value should be a string representing the category (e.g., "News", "Technology", etc.).
complete
Specifies that a channel is complete and will not post any more items in the future.
copyright
Provides the copyright details for the channel.
explicit
Indicates whether the channel contains explicit content. The value can be either TRUE or FALSE.
funding_url
Specifies the donation/funding links for the channel. The content of the tag is the recommended string to be used with the link.
guid
The globally unique identifier (GUID) for a channel. The value is a UUIDv5.
image_url
Provides a URL linking to the artwork for the channel.
language
Defines the language of the channel, specified in the ISO 639 format. For example, "en" for English, "fr" for French.
locked
Tells podcast hosting platforms whether they are allowed to import this feed.
self_link
URL of the RSS feed.
type
Specifies the channel as either episodic or serial. The value can be either "episodic" or "serial".
Row-level parameters
description
REQUIRED. Describes the item
link
REQUIRED. Defines the hyperlink to the item (blog post URL, etc.).
title
REQUIRED. Defines the title of the feed item (episode name, blog post title, etc.).
block
Prevents a specific item from appearing in podcast listening applications.
date
Indicates when the item was published (RFC-822 date-time).
duration
The duration of an item in seconds.
enclosure_length
The length in bytes of the audio/video episode content.
enclosure_type
The MIME media type of the audio/video episode content (e.g., "audio/mpeg", "audio/m4a", "video/m4v", "video/mp4").
enclosure_url
For podcast episodes, provides a URL linking to the audio/video episode content, in mp3, m4a, m4v, or mp4 format.
episode
The chronological number that is associated with an item.
episode_type
Defines the type of content for a specific item. The value can be either "full", "trailer", or "bonus".
explicit
Indicates whether the item contains explicit content. The value can be either TRUE or FALSE.
guid
The globally unique identifier (GUID) for an item.
image_url
Provides a URL linking to the artwork for the item.
season
The chronological number associated with an item's season.
transcript_type
The type of the transcript or closed captions file for the item (e.g., "text/plain", "text/html", "text/vtt", "application/json", "application/x-subrip").
transcript_url
A link to a transcript or closed captions file for the item.
Examples
An RSS channel about SQLPage latest news.
select 'http_header' as component, 'application/rss+xml' as content_type;
select 'shell-empty' as component;
select
'rss' as component,
'SQLPage blog' as title,
'https://sql.datapage.app/blog.sql' as link,
'latest news about SQLpage' as description,
'en' as language,
'Technology' as category,
FALSE as explicit,
'https://sql.datapage.app/favicon.ico' as image_url,
'Ophir Lojkine' as author,
'https://github.com/sponsors/lovasoa' as funding_url,
'episodic' as type;
select
'Hello everyone !' as title,
'https://sql.datapage.app/blog.sql?post=Come%20see%20me%20build%20twitter%20live%20on%20stage%20in%20Prague' as link,
'If some of you european SQLPagers are around Prague this december, I will be giving a talk about SQLPage at pgconf.eu on December 14th.' as description,
'http://127.0.0.1:8080/sqlpage_introduction_video.webm' as enclosure_url,
123456789 as enclosure_length,
'video/webm' as enclosure_type,
'2023-12-04' as date;
Once you have your rss feed ready, you can submit it to podcast directories like Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts...