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Lefora allows you to subscribe to many different RSS feeds on your forum.

Available RSS Formats:

RSS 1.0
RSS 2.0
ATOM

Feed Types (on a single forum):

Recent posts
Posts from a category
A single topic's post and replies
Posts from a user
Members that joined

Lefora also has an API for a full feed of all posts, across all public forums. You will need a private key to access this feed. If you're interested, please email 'upgrades -at- lefora.com' with your interest. We're open to creative ways on partnering with other sites on this data, for instance, we provide a full lefora feed on public forums to BoardReader.com, so that people may find a lefora forum on a BoardReader search. We automatically provide public feeds to google and yahoo.

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How to use the RSS API

1. Choose a format:

RSS 1.0: ?format=rss
RSS 2.0: ?format=rss2
ATOM: ?format=atom

2. Select a feed from your forum, examples for the support forum is below.

Recent posts: http://support.lefora.com/feeds/posts/?format=atom
Posts from a category: http://support.lefora.com/feeds/posts/?format=atom
A single topic's post and replies: http://support.lefora.com/feeds/thread/?thread=556938&format=atom
Posts from user: http://support.lefora.com/feeds/profile/?author=2&format=atom
Members that joined: http://support.lefora.com/api/members/?format=atom

It's very easy to find a feed for a URL, while you're looking at a topic, member profile, forum homepage, etc., you'll see the RSS icon in your URL's address bar. Just click that to get the appropriate feed for your view. Note, a token will be added to the feed which is optional. (On private forums, this token is required to access data your user can see, DO NOT SHARE your private forum token, treat it like a password.)

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