[mbesto]

Is there any way outside of just polling every 1~5 minutes to get realtime updates to RSS? Curious what is standard here? If you do do polling, what interval?

[qw]

I don't know if they are still in use, but there are pub/sub services that can be used for notifications.

This was created to avoid unnecessary polling of RSS/Atom feeds:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSub

[banana_giraffe]

Yes, you need to poll. Ideally with If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match headers so you can save some resources if the feed hasn't changed.

[timbit42]

I usually do 60 minutes. I'm not desperate enough to check every 5 or 10 minutes. I've come across a few websites that block you if you refresh too frequently. I'm not sure whether those ones still do that though.

[derekzhouzhen]

If you need realtime update, then RSS is probably not the right tool. For polling, I currently do the following:

* with `HTTP 304: not modified` result, I'll come back in 60 minutes * if there is any update, I'll come back in 4 hours * if there is no cache control header, such as etag or last-modified, I will poll every 12 hours.

[rakoo]

Apart from websub, which does require some resources, servers could provide long-polling such that the socket remains open, and give a reply as soon as there is one. Clients don't poll, servers aren't flooded (but do need to keep an open connection )

[anotherevan]

WebSub (née PubSubHubbub) can work well if the RSS feed supports it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSub

[zaik]

XMPP PubSub nodes: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0277.html

[Pakdef]

I poll every hour... for my need, that is plenty