RFC: Add option to @astrojs/rss for including full post content in RSS feed.

[slyeargin]

• Start Date: 2022-08-18
• Status: Draft

Summary

Updating @astrojs/rss to generate feeds that include full compiledContext() strings as content:encoded in the XML, given a parameter of contentLength with a value of full. (This value would default to summary, which is the current default behavior.)

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[matthewp]

I think the idea is good and well scoped. There are some issues with the RFC itself that I'd like to see cleaned up, but assuming that can be done I would be in favor of this.

[SeanMcP]

Forgive me if this is a naive question, but is <content:encoded> a valid element in RSS 2.0? I don't see it in the list of item subelements, but it is mentioned here for 1.0.

[naiyerasif]

I would not want to publish the compiled content that's rendered by Astro for the following reasons:

• The syntax highlighting itself can significantly increase the size of the file (a rough estimate is by 3x times).
• I may want to customise the content for syndication using additional Remark/Rehype plugins

Ideally, I'd want a separate markdown pipeline to generate the HTML optimised for syndication.

[SeanMcP]

This feature was added to @astrojs/rss in 1.6.14 with a different API than this RFC suggests. As a result, this can probably be closed.

@naiyerasif: Full content is opt-in, so you don't need to include it if you don't want.