Activity feed lets you build one centralized RSS feed that pulls in new entries from a bunch of different social networking sites. Support for (one or more) YouTube, RSS or Atom for existing blogs, and Bluesky or Mastodon (via RSS). Contributions for more are welcome!
This allows you to encourage folks to subscribe in one location and you can control how that feed is populated later.
Limitations:
- This is not a permanent data store or archival tool for your content. This does not (yet?) fetch old data beyond the initial page of results for each activity type’s API. This is merely a aggregation and rebroadcast tool for your new content in RSS.
Caching Notes:
- When used in a static build, this will only update the feed when your build runs. I’d recommend setting up a recurring build to generate your feed regularly (maybe daily?).
- If on Netlify, I would also recommend using the
netlify-plugin-cacheplugin to persist your API fetch call cache across builds. You can see an example of this on the Eleventy Fetch docs. Vercel and Cloudflare Pages offer this functionality for-free.- You can control the maximum frequency at which new fetches are made to the APIs using
feed.setCacheDuration("4h");
- You can control the maximum frequency at which new fetches are made to the APIs using
You can subscribe to the following Eleventy feed in your RSS reader of choice to see it in action:
npm install @11ty/eleventy-activity-feed
- Use
follow-feed.11ty.cjsin an ESM project (if"type": "module"in yourpackage.json) - Use
follow-feed.11ty.jsin a CommonJS project
export default class {
data() {
return {
// Controls where the file is written
permalink: "/follow.rss"
}
}
async render() {
const { ActivityFeed } = await import("@11ty/eleventy-activity-feed");
let feed = new ActivityFeed();
feed.setCacheDuration("4h");
// YouTube
feed.addSource("youtubeUser", "YouTube", "UCskGTioqrMBcw8pd14_334A");
// Blog
feed.addSource("atom", "Blog", "https://www.11ty.dev/blog/feed.xml");
// Mastodon
feed.addSource("rss", "Mastodon", "https://fosstodon.org/users/eleventy.rss");
return feed.toRssFeed({
title: "Eleventy’s Activity Feed",
language: "en",
url: "https://www.11ty.dev/follow/",
subtitle: "One centralized feed of Eleventy activity across the web.",
});
}
};Add to the <head> of your page to show it in RSS readers:
<link rel="alternate" href="/follow.rss" title="Eleventy’s Activity Feed" type="application/rss+xml">Happy to accept PRs for better HTML display of different feed entries (YouTube needs URL-><a> linkified descriptions and addition of more types of data! Feel free to contribute!
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