People & Planet RSS Feeds
Our new RSS feeds deliver stories about People & Planet's campaigns, news and groups directly to you.
Reading an RSS feed
What’s an RSS feed?
- An RSS feed is a bit like a webpage written for computers rather than people to read.
- In conjunction with a program called a ‘news reader’ it can deliver stories from peopleandplanet.org straight to you.
- It even allows other websites to show (or syndicate) our headlines.
How to use our RSS feeds
To use our feeds you’ll first need to get hold of a program that can read them. These programs are called news readers. Some modern web browsers like Firefox have a news reader built in, as do some email clients like Thunderbird. There are lots of stand alone news readers as well and some websites are starting to offer online news readers.
There are a number of ways to subscribe to our feeds - this will vary according to which news reader you use:
- You may be able to ‘drag and drop’ the feed address into your news reader;
- Alternatively you may be able to enter the address into a ‘subscribe to this URL’ box;
- Firefox users can subscribe to our feeds by visiting the homepage and clicking the Live Bookmark logo (which is orange and in either your address bar, or at the bottom left of your screen).
How to syndicate our RSS feeds
The Easy Way
If you or your group have your own website, you can use our headlines by pasting the HTML from this example page into your web page. That’s all there is to it.
The Trickier Way (techies only!)
If you or one of your techie guru friends knows how to program computers, you may be able to write a program to syndicate our feeds using one of the following resources:
- PHP: You could use Gary White’s rssreader.php script, a flexible, object orientated php script to help you display RSS feeds on a web page.
- Perl: You can use Jonathan Eisenzopf’s simple rss2html.pl script to generate static html pages. It requires the CPAN modules LWP: :Agent and XML: :RSS
How to find our feeds
Here are the addresses and descriptions of all our feeds:
- http://peopleandplanet.org/rss/headlines.xml - The headlines;
- http://peopleandplanet.org/rss/news.xml - Full news;
- http://peopleandplanet.org/rss/network_-_sixth_form.xml - Sixth Form network news;
- http://peopleandplanet.org/rss/network_-_university.xml - University network news;
- http://peopleandplanet.org/rss/climate_change.xml - Climate change stories;
- http://peopleandplanet.org/rss/fairtrade.xml - Fairtrade news;
- http://peopleandplanet.org/rss/trade_justice.xml - Trade Justice stories;
- http://peopleandplanet.org/rss/hiv_aids.xml - Treat AIDS Now campaign updates.
You can access a more simply styled version of any feed by adding _mini before .xml in its name, for example http://peopleandplanet.org/rss/headlines_mini.xml. This could be handy if you’d like to syndicate our headlines.