Columbus City Government Miscellaneous RSS Feeds

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→ Import the OPML ←

What: This repository contains a list of random RSS feeds that I've found which are relevant to the City of Columbus, Ohio. This list excludes the >290 RSS feeds for Columbus' GovDelivery newsletters. Those feeds are scraped; these are hand-curated.

Why: If you want to stay on top of things.

When: See the changelog for major updates to this repository; if you just want to keep an eye on updates watch the git log

How: The list is contained in feeds.csv, which is a Comma-Separated Value file that you can open in a spreadsheet program such as Excel, Numbers, LibreOffice Calc, or Google Sheets. The data contains the following columns:

• Feed Number: Legacy field for data format compatibility with benlk/columbus-govdelivery-rss.
• Title: This is a hand-written title for the feed.
• Link: This is is the related website URL for the feed. Sometimes it's extracted from the feed, sometimes it's hand-set, sometimes it's blank.
• Description: This is a hand-written description of the content of the feed, with my commentary.
• Feed URL: This is the feed URL.
• Feed Type: RSS or Atom? Doesn't delve into the shades of extended RSS like MRSS.

If you find interesting feeds in this list, tell the world, but also tell me on Bluesky @benlk.com or Mastodon @benlk@urbanists.social

Common Issues

• Some RSS feeds here may be published by their servers with an incorrect Content-Type header of text/html. If this causes problems for your feedreader, consult your feedreader's documentation. FreshRSS supports adding a #force_feed to the end of the feed URL to force the software to interpret the file as application/rss+xml
• Some RSS feeds here have zero items, or update very infrequently.

Updating instructions

1. Update the CSV
2. php subscriptions.opml.php > subscriptions.opml
3. Update changelog.md if necessary
4. Commit changes and push