{"id":18019,"date":"2017-05-17T16:11:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T20:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18019"},"modified":"2019-08-05T16:35:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T20:35:18","slug":"json-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/17\/json-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"JSON Feed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brent Simmons and Manton Reece<\/a> (via John Gruber<\/a>, Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

The JSON Feed format is a pragmatic syndication format, like RSS<\/a> and Atom<\/a>, but with one big difference: it’s JSON instead of XML.<\/p>\n

For most developers, JSON is far<\/em> easier to read and write than XML. Developers may groan at picking up an XML parser, but decoding JSON is often just a single line of code.<\/p>\n

Our hope is that, because of the lightness of JSON and simplicity of the JSON Feed format, developers will be more attracted to developing for the open web.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Seems like a good idea. Sure, it’s another standard<\/a>, so if it catches on this will create more work for people writing code in this area. But the fact that it’s so easy to use could open up more possibilities, and I assume that it will be more amenable to the needs of new services<\/a>. There’s a WordPress plug-in<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See also: Dave Winer<\/a> (2012).<\/p>\n

Update (2017-05-17): See also: Brent Simmons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update (2017-05-18): See also: Manton Reece<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update (2017-05-30): John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The DF RSS feed isn’t going anywhere, so if you’re already subscribed to it, there’s no need to switch. But JSON Feed’s spec makes it possible for me to specify both a url<\/code> that points to the post on Daring Fireball (i.e. the permalink) and an external_url<\/code> that points to the article I’m linking to. The way I’ve dealt with that in the RSS (technically Atom, but that’s sort of beside the point) is a bit of a hack that’s caused problems with numerous feed readers over the years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Ben Ubois<\/a>:<\/p>\n

One of the criticisms I’ve seen of JSON Feed is that there’s no incentive for feed readers to support JSON Feed. This is not true. One of the largest-by-volume support questions I get is along the lines of “Why does this random feed not work?” And, 95% of the time, it’s because the feed is broken in some subtle way. JSON Feed will help alleviate these problems, because it’s easier to get right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Update (2017-06-01): See also: The Talk Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2017-06-02): See also: Chris Siebenmann<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2017-06-12): See also: Dave Winer<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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