Editing Web feed (section)

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On the [[World Wide Web]], a '''web feed''' (or '''news feed''') is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors ''[[Web syndication|syndicate]]'' a web feed, thereby allowing users to ''subscribe'' a channel to it by adding the feed resource address to a [[news aggregator]] client (also called a ''feed reader'' or a ''news reader''). Users typically subscribe to a feed by manually entering the [[Uniform Resource Locator|URL]] of a feed or clicking a link in a [[web browser]] or by dragging the link from the web browser to the aggregator, thus "RSS and Atom files provide news updates from a website in a simple form for your computer."<ref>[http://blogspace.com/rss/readers Blogspace "RSS readers (RSS info)"]</ref> 

The kinds of content delivered by a web feed are typically [[HTML5|HTML]] (webpage content) or links to webpages and other kinds of digital media. Often, when websites provide web feeds to notify users of content updates, they only include summaries in the web feed rather than the full content itself. Many news [[website]]s, [[weblog]]s, schools and [[podcast]]ers operate web feeds. As web feeds are designed to be [[Machine-readable data|machine-readable]] rather than [[human-readable]] they can also be used to automatically transfer information from one website to another without any human intervention.