Are RSS feeds still a thing for anyone?

As a bit of an experiment, there is now an adaptor at https://bbc-rss.herokuapp.com/ which provides a couple of hundred category based feeds for both TV and radio. Most are quite small but there are higher level feeds such as Comedy / All and Drama / All which may be useful to someone.

Being able to switch the backend source of data if necessary (/programmes, AOD, iBL, Nitro) and the data format (XML, JSON, RSS, get_iplayer cache format) easily by having a centralised/replicated source of cache data may be an interesting direction for get_iplayer in the future.

This idea has been floated several times before. If you ever decide you want to take the next step and host a central programme index for get_iplayer, let me know. get_iplayer's own format is obviously best ( but RSS would be fine if that is the direction you want to go), and your server could handle the traffic.

Just a quick bump for this, as the feeds are definitely being used by some people and this is the only place I've publicised them.

E.g. might be interesting for some at the moment: http://bbc-rss.herokuapp.com/rss/tv/sport/olympics.rss

The feeds now include images, better titles and more accurate publication dates. Any issues, please raise them on http://github.com/mermade/bbc-rss