Get information from RSS/Atom feed

[Freso]

Similar to the Twitter endpoint, it would be amazing to have an RSS/Atom endpoint that would allow for getting/printting at least the title, dc:creator, pubDate, and/or link elements of the most recent/first item element in a given RSS/Atom XML file.

This would be great for being able to link to the most recent blog post (on a Wordpress site, Medium, or a number of other platforms), and might also enable other interactions that are not natively supported. E.g., YouTube provides an RSS feed of the videos of a given channel, so it wouldn’t be out of the question that a potential YouTube competitor (which might not yet have enough of a base to warrant dedicated support for it) also include an RSS feed which could then be hooked into using this.
It might also be something that established services provide for new features that are not currently supported. (I kind of expected YouTube community posts to have an RSS feed for them, but if they do, I can’t currently find it.)

[Decicus]

This is quite an interesting idea. Not sure how many people will end up using it, but since it's service-agnostic, it could be fun to add. I'm not going to guarantee anything for now, since I'm generally against adding any new endpoints to DecAPI (unless it's something I'm planning to use myself).

(I kind of expected YouTube community posts to have an RSS feed for them, but if they do, I can’t currently find it.)

I imagine YouTube's support for RSS is just for legacy reasons and that they likely won't support it for any new features. I'm surprised they've kept the "channel videos RSS" going for this long.

Thanks for the suggestion! :)