Are there any constantly updating RSS feed services to use for testing, or just very active RSS feeds?

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mgnb picture mgnb · Aug 13, 2013 · Viewed 19.9k times · Source

I'm trying to test a service that consumes RSS feeds and turns them into push notifications, and it would be nice if there was a very regularly updated publicly available RSS feed I could point it at.

I know I can just use a news feed like CNN, but I'm wondering if there's something more "Lorem Ipsum" style for RSS.

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mgnb picture mgnb · Aug 14, 2013

I really needed this service, so I set one up at http://lorem-rss.herokuapp.com/

The documentation is at that link, as well as in the GitHub repository below. You can tweak it using GET parameters to update every N seconds, minutes, hours, days, months or years. But I haven't yet tested it comprehensively so I'm not sure if the RSS validates well across different parsers. YMMV.

The code is on GitHub at https://github.com/mbertolacci/lorem-rss

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