It was surprisingly easy to get images into the RSS feed.
All you have to do is add the following attributes and your feeds should be image ready.
- xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" in the XML tag.
- <media:thumbnail url='http://link' height='x' width='y' /> element in the item.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>ThatAwesomeShirt! Latest Shirts</title>
<link>http://www.thatawesomeshirt.com/</link>
...
<item>
<title>AWESOMENESS</title>
<link>http://www.thatawesomeshirt.com/shirt/209/awesomeness</link>
...
<media:thumbnail url='http://www.thatawesomeshirt.com/images/get/252/shirt_thumbnail' height='75' width='75' />
</item>
<item>
<title>Quit Work, Be A Ninja</title>
<link>http://www.thatawesomeshirt.com/shirt/208/quit_work_be_a_ninja</link>
...
<media:thumbnail url='http://www.thatawesomeshirt.com/images/get/251/shirt_thumbnail' height='75' width='75' />
</item>
...
</channel>
</rss> Now, 2 things to make sure of:
- Make sure you're using RSS 2.0 onwards.
- The URL for the image must be an absolute URL.
