Editing RSS (section)

== Interoperability ==
Although the number of items in an RSS channel is theoretically unlimited, some [[news aggregators]] do not support RSS files larger than 150KB.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}} For example, applications that rely on the Common Feed List of [[Windows]] might handle such files as if they were corrupt, and not open them. [[Interoperability]] can be maximized by keeping the file size under this limit.

[[Podcast]]s are distributed using RSS. To listen to a podcast, a user adds the RSS feed to their podcast client, and the client can then list available episodes and download or stream them for listening or viewing. To be included in a podcast directory the feed must for each episode provide a title, description, artwork, category, language, and explicit rating. There are some services that specifically indexes and is a [[search engine]] for podcasts.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Best Podcast Search Engine|url=https://lifehacker.com/the-best-podcast-search-engine-1818560337|access-date=February 5, 2021|website=Lifehacker|date=September 20, 2017 |language=en-us|archive-date=November 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129195032/https://lifehacker.com/the-best-podcast-search-engine-1818560337|url-status=live}}</ref>

Some [[BitTorrent]] clients support RSS. RSS feeds which provide links to .torrent files allow users to [[broadcatching|subscribe and automatically download]] content as soon as it is published.

===RSS to email===
{{See also|WebSub}}
Some services deliver RSS to an email inbox, sending updates from user's personal selection and schedules. Examples of such services include [[IFTTT]], [[Zapier]] and others.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogtrottr.com/|title=Free realtime RSS and Atom feed to email service. Get your favourite blogs, feeds, and news delivered to your inbox.|access-date=January 26, 2017|archive-date=January 28, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170128081150/http://blogtrottr.com/|url-status=live}}</ref> Conversely, some services deliver email to RSS readers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rss.com/|title=RSS Feed Reader, your tool for saving time and money at RSS.com|access-date=January 26, 2017|archive-date=January 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170125224151/https://www.rss.com/|url-status=live}}</ref> Further services like e.g. [[Gmane]] allow to subscribe to feeds via [[NNTP]].

It may be noted that [[email client]]s such as [[Mozilla Thunderbird|Thunderbird]] supports RSS natively.<ref>{{Cite web|title=How to use Thunderbird to get RSS feeds! Here's How it Works|date=October 17, 2018 |url=https://www.uslsoftware.com/how-to-use-thunderbird-to-get-rss-feeds/|access-date=February 5, 2021|language=en-US|archive-date=April 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413005112/https://www.uslsoftware.com/how-to-use-thunderbird-to-get-rss-feeds/|url-status=live}}</ref>