Is it possible to make an RSS feed from an arbitrary list of links?

fields · December 22, 2022, 4:13pm

Hi -

I have a simple Hugo single-page site that’s more or less a collection of links to other external pages. Is it possible to use hugo to generate an RSS feed of these links (or a separate text file with URLS, titles, etc…)?

Thanks!

idarek · December 22, 2022, 4:29pm

Shortly speaking you can do whatever you want, but you need to build your custom sitemap.xml file

Template:

github.com

gohugoio/hugo/blob/master/tpl/tplimpl/embedded/templates/_default/sitemap.xml

{{ printf "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>" | safeHTML }}
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
  xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  {{ range .Data.Pages }}
    {{- if .Permalink -}}
  <url>
    <loc>{{ .Permalink }}</loc>{{ if not .Lastmod.IsZero }}
    <lastmod>{{ safeHTML ( .Lastmod.Format "2006-01-02T15:04:05-07:00" ) }}</lastmod>{{ end }}{{ with .Sitemap.ChangeFreq }}
    <changefreq>{{ . }}</changefreq>{{ end }}{{ if ge .Sitemap.Priority 0.0 }}
    <priority>{{ .Sitemap.Priority }}</priority>{{ end }}{{ if .IsTranslated }}{{ range .Translations }}
    <xhtml:link
                rel="alternate"
                hreflang="{{ .Language.Lang }}"
                href="{{ .Permalink }}"
                />{{ end }}
    <xhtml:link
                rel="alternate"
                hreflang="{{ .Language.Lang }}"
                href="{{ .Permalink }}"
                />{{ end }}

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if you put this file into your layout\_defaults folder and manipulate it from there you may achieve what you want.

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