RSS Feeds
RSS feeds enable users to view the latest and most important stories allAfrica.com. Current items in English and French are available across the 85 categories that are found on our site. The headline can be viewed for personal use or on a website, as long as proper formatting is maintained and material is correctly attributed. Any web site displaying the headlines must include a link to AllAfrica home page (at https://allafrica.com or https://fr.allafrica.com) or to the main page of the feed that you're using (such as https://allafrica.com/business/).
Available Feeds
Please use the following URL to configure your aggregator:
https://allafrica.com/tools/headlines/rdf/southernafrica/headlines.rdf
… or use the following links to add our links to some popular aggregators:
How do I Start?
Headlines on a Web Site
Terms and Conditions
More Information on RSS
How Do I Start
To access RSS feeds for personal use, you need either a news reader or
aggregator that knows how to display RSS content from allAfrica.com or other Web sites
you select. There are a variety of news readers available, many of which are
free of charge. You can either sign up for an online service, use a web browser that
provides this capability, or download the aggregator software and install it on your computer.
Web-based Aggregators are the easiest way to read feeds. Yahoo!,
MSN, AOL,
and Google let you add RSS feeds to your personalized page.
NewsGator lets you read online or in your e-mail software,
My Feedster marries an aggregator to an RSS search engine
and Oddpost (for Windows) is a paid web-based e-mail service that
includes a built-in aggregator, Bloglines notifies you of updates.
Firefox Web browser,
which lets you save RSS feeds as "Live Bookmarks" that update regularly (the
Sage extension makes Firefox a more useful aggregator).
The Opera browser integrates support for RSS feeds into
its email reader.
To display AllAfrica headlines or stories on your reader or software, choose from any of the categories on the complete
listing above.
If you run into any difficulties, you should contact the Aggregator's customer support.
For a list of other web-based news aggregators and browser plugins, as well as Desktop or Email-based, see here: http://www.newsonfeeds.com/faq/aggregators
Headlines on a Web Site
The following URL will generate the Business, Economy & Finance summary:
https://allafrica.com/tools/headlines/rdf/business/headlines.rdf
The string business in the above URL specifies the category. The available categories are listed in this table.
For the French feeds, the server should be fr.allafrica.com. So the French, West Africa request would be:
https://fr.allafrica.com/tools/headlines/rdf/westafrica/headlines.rdf
For more information on RSS/RDF, see:
For Further Assistance
If you need assistance with a Headline Module, or if you have suggestions for our development staff, please click here.
Terms and Conditions
AllAfrica provides the headline modules at no charge and on an "as-is" basis. We specifically disclaim any representations or warranties, express or implied. Any site that chooses to use this service specifically acknowledges and agrees that AllAfrica is not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the headline modules.
As a condition for using the RSS feed, we ask that you credit allAfrica.com and that you link to either the AllAfrica home page (at https://allafrica.com or https://fr.allafrica.com) or to the main page of the feed that you're using (such as https://allafrica.com/business/).
Additional Information
What is RSS?http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html
More on RSShttp://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html
Introduction to RSShttp://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/intro/
RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters
