From 0e409e37d9774190b9b44bd89249be817df40ce8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: anthonyrawlins <anthonyrawlins@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 02:16:26 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Add auto-generated RSS feed with scheduled publishing support
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- Created /rss.xml API route that generates valid RSS 2.0 XML
- RSS feed integrates with scheduled publishing system automatically
- Includes full post content, proper metadata, and CDATA encoding
- Added RSS feed link to HTML metadata for auto-discovery
- RSS link already exists in blog footer navigation
- 1-hour caching with error handling and fallback RSS
- Feed updates automatically when new posts go live

Features:
✅ Works with scheduled posts (future posts excluded)
✅ Proper XML escaping and CDATA content encoding
✅ Rich metadata including author, categories, publish dates
✅ Auto-discovery via HTML <link> tags
✅ Graceful error handling with fallback feed

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code)

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 app/layout.tsx       |   5 +++
 app/rss.xml/route.ts | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 106 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 app/rss.xml/route.ts

diff --git a/app/layout.tsx b/app/layout.tsx
index 49a2624..27d5d7f 100644
--- a/app/layout.tsx
+++ b/app/layout.tsx
@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ export const metadata: Metadata = {
   metadataBase: new URL('https://blog.chorus.services'),
   alternates: {
     canonical: 'https://blog.chorus.services',
+    types: {
+      'application/rss+xml': [
+        { url: '/rss.xml', title: 'CHORUS PING! RSS Feed' }
+      ]
+    }
   },
   openGraph: {
     type: 'website',
diff --git a/app/rss.xml/route.ts b/app/rss.xml/route.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3eb6867
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/rss.xml/route.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+import { getSortedPostsData } from '@/lib/blog'
+import { NextResponse } from 'next/server'
+
+// RSS feed configuration
+const SITE_URL = 'https://blog.chorus.services'
+const SITE_TITLE = 'CHORUS Services Blog'
+const SITE_DESCRIPTION = 'Contextual AI orchestration, on-premises infrastructure, and the future of intelligent systems.'
+const SITE_LANGUAGE = 'en-us'
+const AUTHOR_EMAIL = 'noreply@chorus.services'
+const AUTHOR_NAME = 'CHORUS Services'
+
+function escapeXml(text: string): string {
+  return text
+    .replace(/&/g, '&amp;')
+    .replace(/</g, '&lt;')
+    .replace(/>/g, '&gt;')
+    .replace(/"/g, '&quot;')
+    .replace(/'/g, '&#39;')
+}
+
+function formatRssDate(dateString: string): string {
+  const date = new Date(dateString)
+  return date.toUTCString()
+}
+
+export async function GET() {
+  try {
+    // Get all published posts (includes scheduled posts that should be live)
+    const posts = getSortedPostsData()
+    
+    // Generate RSS XML
+    const rssXml = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
+  <channel>
+    <title>${escapeXml(SITE_TITLE)}</title>
+    <link>${SITE_URL}</link>
+    <description>${escapeXml(SITE_DESCRIPTION)}</description>
+    <language>${SITE_LANGUAGE}</language>
+    <managingEditor>${AUTHOR_EMAIL} (${AUTHOR_NAME})</managingEditor>
+    <webMaster>${AUTHOR_EMAIL} (${AUTHOR_NAME})</webMaster>
+    <lastBuildDate>${formatRssDate(new Date().toISOString())}</lastBuildDate>
+    <atom:link href="${SITE_URL}/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
+    <generator>CHORUS Blog RSS Generator</generator>
+    <ttl>60</ttl>
+${posts.map(post => `    <item>
+      <title>${escapeXml(post.title)}</title>
+      <link>${SITE_URL}/posts/${post.slug}</link>
+      <description>${escapeXml(post.description)}</description>
+      <author>${AUTHOR_EMAIL} (${post.author.name})</author>
+      <category>${post.tags.map(tag => escapeXml(tag)).join(', ')}</category>
+      <guid isPermaLink="true">${SITE_URL}/posts/${post.slug}</guid>
+      <pubDate>${formatRssDate(post.date)}</pubDate>
+      <content:encoded><![CDATA[
+        <p><strong>Author:</strong> ${escapeXml(post.author.name)}${post.author.role ? `, ${escapeXml(post.author.role)}` : ''}</p>
+        <p><strong>Reading Time:</strong> ${post.readingTime} min</p>
+        <p><strong>Tags:</strong> ${post.tags.map(tag => escapeXml(tag)).join(', ')}</p>
+        <hr>
+        <div>${post.content}</div>
+        <hr>
+        <p><a href="${SITE_URL}/posts/${post.slug}">Read full post on CHORUS Blog</a></p>
+      ]]></content:encoded>
+    </item>`).join('\n')}
+  </channel>
+</rss>`
+
+    return new NextResponse(rssXml, {
+      status: 200,
+      headers: {
+        'Content-Type': 'application/rss+xml; charset=utf-8',
+        'Cache-Control': 'public, max-age=3600, s-maxage=3600', // Cache for 1 hour
+      },
+    })
+  } catch (error) {
+    console.error('Error generating RSS feed:', error)
+    
+    // Return a minimal RSS feed with error info
+    const errorRss = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<rss version="2.0">
+  <channel>
+    <title>${escapeXml(SITE_TITLE)} - Error</title>
+    <link>${SITE_URL}</link>
+    <description>Error generating RSS feed</description>
+    <language>${SITE_LANGUAGE}</language>
+    <lastBuildDate>${formatRssDate(new Date().toISOString())}</lastBuildDate>
+    <item>
+      <title>RSS Feed Error</title>
+      <link>${SITE_URL}</link>
+      <description>There was an error generating the RSS feed. Please try again later.</description>
+      <pubDate>${formatRssDate(new Date().toISOString())}</pubDate>
+    </item>
+  </channel>
+</rss>`
+
+    return new NextResponse(errorRss, {
+      status: 500,
+      headers: {
+        'Content-Type': 'application/rss+xml; charset=utf-8',
+      },
+    })
+  }
+}
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