# Feature: Add RSS feed for /recent

**URL:** <https://talk.observablehq.com/t/feature-add-rss-feed-for-recent/2206>\
**Category:** Feedback\
**Created:** [July 25, 2019, 2:50pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/feature-add-rss-feed-for-recent/2206 "2019-07-25T14:50:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![mootari](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/mootari/32/581_2.png) [@mootari](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mootari)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 2:50pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/feature-add-rss-feed-for-recent/2206/1 "2019-07-25T14:50:43Z")

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Right now RSS feeds are the closest thing to an officially endorsed “API” that we have. Unfortunately they only exist for individual users/organizations and collections.

The list of recent notebooks however has no such feed, making it impossible to retrieve a list of new notebooks without querying the unsupported, internal API.

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**Author:** ![mbostock](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/mbostock/32/9_2.png) [@mbostock](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mbostock)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/feature-add-rss-feed-for-recent/2206/2 "2019-07-25T15:37:12Z")

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The recently-published RSS feed is here:

[https://api.observablehq.com/documents/public.rss](https://api.observablehq.com/documents/public.rss)

I think we’re just missing the meta tags to make it discoverable.

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**Author:** ![mootari](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/mootari/32/581_2.png) [@mootari](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mootari)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/feature-add-rss-feed-for-recent/2206/3 "2019-07-25T15:40:37Z")

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How heavily is the feed cached? Will it e.g. drop deleted notebooks and reflect changed titles?

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**Author:** ![mbostock](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/mbostock/32/9_2.png) [@mbostock](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mbostock)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 3:43pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/feature-add-rss-feed-for-recent/2206/4 "2019-07-25T15:43:13Z")

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It should be no more than thirty seconds out of date.

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**Author:** ![mootari](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/mootari/32/581_2.png) [@mootari](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mootari)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 12:24pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/feature-add-rss-feed-for-recent/2206/5 "2019-10-05T12:24:21Z")

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The feed no longer works. Accessing [https://api.observablehq.com/documents/public.rss](https://api.observablehq.com/documents/public.rss) results in a HTTP 400 error and the response:

```json
{"errors":[]}

```

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**Author:** ![mootari](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/mootari/32/581_2.png) [@mootari](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mootari)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/feature-add-rss-feed-for-recent/2206/6 "2019-10-05T16:35:45Z")

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To my knowledge this feed is currently the only index that contains _all_ published notebooks. Any chance it can be restored?

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**Author:** ![mbostock](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/mbostock/32/9_2.png) [@mbostock](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mbostock)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 4:50pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/feature-add-rss-feed-for-recent/2206/7 "2019-10-05T16:50:01Z")

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I’m looking into it.

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**Author:** ![mootari](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/mootari/32/581_2.png) [@mootari](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mootari)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 4:51pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/feature-add-rss-feed-for-recent/2206/8 "2019-10-05T16:51:22Z")

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Thank you! ❤

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**Author:** ![mbostock](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/mbostock/32/9_2.png) [@mbostock](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mbostock)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/feature-add-rss-feed-for-recent/2206/9 "2019-10-05T17:21:18Z")

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This has been fixed.

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**Author:** ![mootari](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/mootari/32/581_2.png) [@mootari](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mootari)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 9:34pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/feature-add-rss-feed-for-recent/2206/10 "2019-10-05T21:34:26Z")

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Btw, what’s an acceptable request interval for RSS scraping?

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**Author:** ![mootari](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/mootari/32/581_2.png) [@mootari](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mootari)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 9:56pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/feature-add-rss-feed-for-recent/2206/11 "2019-10-05T21:56:11Z")

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Fun fact: Up until 2019-10-01 there are ~22400 published notebooks, the first being

> **[Exploring the Quick, Draw! dataset](https://observablehq.com/@enjalot/express-yo-self)**
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> An Observable notebook by Ian Johnson.