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The URL to be used to gain access to the RSS feed depends on :the
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language (English, German or French).
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Here are the URL’s of the RSS feed for each supported language:
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English
German
French
Here are the URL’s of the RSS feeds:
English version: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/catalogue/rss/en/statistics-update.rss
German version: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/catalogue/rss/de/statistics-update.rss
French version: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/catalogue/rss/fr/statistics-update.rss
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The RSS files are built automatically, on each data release . They list all the changes that have been disseminated.They (11AM / 11PM each day). They include information about:
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xml: XML version: version 1.0, encoding is UTF-8
version: Version of the RSS file (2.0)
channel: File contains only one channel. Inside of it, the following information will be present:
title: Title of the RSS file (Eurostat - Data and Data Structure updates)
link: URL to the RSS file
description: Description of the RSS feed
language: Code of the language of the RSS file. Existing codes are:
en: English
de: German
fr: French
copyright: Copyright information
pubDate: Timestamp of the last update of the RSS file (under the following format: yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss, example: 2018-09-25 12:45:18)
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link: See link above
title: See title above
Fields available in an
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Item part
Inside the RSS file, items are sorted in this specific order:
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title: Title of the item consisting of Identifier and Type:
Identifier: The ID of teh the item in UPPER CASE
Type: The type of the event
description: The title of the item (in the selected language)
category: The type of event according to the related type and nature of the change:
DELETED_CODE_LIST
NEW_CODE_LIST
UPDATED_CODE_LIST
DELETED_DATASET
NEW_DATASET
UPDATED_DATASET_STRUCTURE: in case only UPDATE_STRUCTURE annotation has changed
UPDATED_DATASET_DATA: in case only UPDATE_DATA annotation has changed
UPDATED_DATASET_STRUCTURE_DATA: in case both UPDATE_STRUCTURE and UPDATE_DATA annotations have changed
pubDate: The date and time of the release (under the following format: yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss, example: 2018-09-25 12:45:18.17)
link: The URL providing direct access to download this item using the API:
For a dataset: URL of the Data Browser Product page of the related dataset
For a code list: API TSV download link of the related code list in the language set in the URL of the RSS feed
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