About RSS feeds

What is RSS? 

As well as publishing our content on this website we also publish it via RSS ("Really Simple Syndication").

Our RSS feeds allow you to see all of our latest content, together with content from across the web that you’ve subscribed to, in one place, as soon as it’s published.

Why subscribe?

Without RSS, to check your favourite sites for updates you have to visit them, read through the content and work out if anything has changed.

With RSS your RSS reader (see How to subscribe below) aggregates content from the all the sites you’re interested in, monitors them for updates, and records what you’ve read.

You might be interested in updates to our News stories, the BBC's Mexico country profile, and Google news. Because all of this content is syndicated with RSS you can subscribe to it all, be alerted when it’s updated and read it all side-by-side in a single page.

So RSS saves you time and It’s a much more efficient way to use the web.

How to subscribe

To use RSS you need an RSS reader. Readers are generally free and can be web-based, desktop-based, or mobile-device-based (RSS is a great way to get updates on the go). Try Google reader (web-based) or Apple's iTunes (desktop-based) to get started.

Once you have a reader you can subscribe to a site’s feed by clicking the orange RSS icon either in the web page or the address bar. Your RSS reader will take care of the rest, checking for updates and monitoring items that you’ve read.

Using RSS feeds on your own site or application

We would encourage users to add our RSS feeds to add extra information to their own sites for the benefit of their users. We understand that this information may be cross-referenced with information from others sources, but request only that the feeds from the FCO are not materially altered and that the information contained and the provenance of that information remains clear. Feeds from this site can be added to your own website or application, but a charge cannot be levied for FCO information without added value (the addition of other information sources for example) being created. We would also ask that those who do use the feeds send us the links so that we can highlight best practice. Please use the feedback form to let us know (select ‘other’ in the drop-down menu).

Not for you?

If you don’t like the sound of RSS you can subscribe to our content by email. Find out more about email alerts.