data: discover RSS feeds for products (32 found, 354 checked)

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What

Swept every active product that had a website but no rss_feed_url (386 in total) and tried to discover a real RSS/Atom feed for each.

• 32 feeds found and recorded as rss_feed_url.
• 354 marked with a dated YAML comment # 2026-07-27 - RSS feed not found, so we know they were checked and do not re-scan them.

How feeds were discovered

For each product: fetch the homepage and read any <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml|atom+xml">, then probe common feed paths (/feed/, /rss.xml, /atom.xml, etc.). Every candidate is validated by fetching it and confirming it is actually a feed (contains <rss>, <feed>, <channel>, or <rdf>), not just any XML. First validated hit wins, preferring the declared <link> feed.

Notes

• The not-found marker is a YAML comment, so it does not render on the product page; it is an internal "checked on this date" marker.
• A few feeds live on the vendor's parent or company domain rather than the product's own (e.g. Media4Display -> telelogos.com, Switchboard -> coatesgroup.com, frontface -> mirabyte's blog). These are the correct company behind the product and each validated as a real feed.
• Hit rate was ~8%; RSS feeds are simply uncommon on these vendor sites.

Validation

bun run check passes on all 625 products. hugo --minify builds clean.