database.news

The list of RSS feeds for https://database.news/ is stored in a feeds.json to allow community contributions.

Contributing

• Send a pull request adding whatever feeds you think are good.
• Your PR might be closed without explanation. Don't cry about it.

feeds.json Configuration Options

The feeds.json file contains an array of feed objects. Each feed object supports the following properties:

[
  {
    "title": "Feed Title",
    "url": "https://example.com/feed.xml",
    "category": "Database",
    "filter_tags": ["tag1", "tag2"],
    "ignore_tags": ["unwanted1", "unwanted2"]
  }
]

Required Properties

• title (string): The display name of the feed source
• url (string): The URL to the RSS/Atom feed (must be a valid RSS or Atom feed URL)

Optional Properties

• category (string): The category of the feed (e.g., "Database", "SQL", etc.)
• filter_tags (array of strings): Only articles containing at least one of these tags (or containing these terms in title/description) will be included
• ignore_tags (array of strings): Articles containing any of these tags (or containing these terms in title/description) will be excluded

Tag Filtering Behavior

The tag filtering works in the following order:

1. If an article contains any tag in ignore_tags, it is skipped regardless of other tags
2. If filter_tags is specified (and not empty) and the article doesn't match any tag, it is skipped
3. If no filter_tags are specified, all articles from the feed are included (unless excluded by ignore_tags)
4. If both filters pass, the article is added to the database

Tags are checked in:

• The RSS feed's category/tag fields
• The article title
• The article description

Note: If you want to include all articles from a feed, simply omit the filter_tags property or set it to an empty array.

Example Feed Configuration

{
  "title": "PlanetScale Blog",
  "url": "https://planetscale.com/blog/feed.atom",
  "category": "Database",
  "filter_tags": ["mysql", "vitess", "database", "sql"],
  "ignore_tags": ["announcement", "release"]
}

This configuration will:

• Import articles from the PlanetScale blog
• Only include articles that mention MySQL, Vitess, database, or SQL
• Skip any articles that are tagged as announcements or releases

Feed Removal Behavior

When a feed is removed from the feeds.json file:

• The feed will be removed from the database the next time the feed fetcher runs
• All articles from that feed will be permanently deleted
• This cleanup happens automatically with each feed fetcher run

To add a new feed or modify existing feeds, submit a PR to the feeds repository.