Channel
The channel configuration block defines the metadata for your RSS feed.
channel: url: https://example.com title: "My Custom Feed" description: "A feed of the latest news from Example.com" author: "jane.doe@example.com (Jane Doe)" ttl: 60 language: "en-us" time_zone: "Europe/Berlin"Options
Section titled “Options”| Attribute | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
url | Required | The URL of the website to scrape. |
title | Optional | The title of the RSS feed. Defaults to the website’s title. |
description | Optional | A description for the RSS feed. Defaults to the website’s meta description. |
author | Optional | The author of the feed, in the format email (Name). |
ttl | Optional | The “time to live” for the feed in minutes. Defaults to the max-age from the response headers, or 360. |
language | Optional | The language of the feed. Defaults to the lang attribute of the <html> tag. |
time_zone | Optional | The time zone for parsing dates. See the list of tz database time zones. |
For detailed documentation on the Ruby API, see the official YARD documentation.