WebSub
Subscription Management via WebHooks
First Published: 2024-09-11| Last Updated:
Status: in progress| Audience: digital gardeners| Confidence: aficionado
WebSub is a W3C recommendation for a common mechanism for communication between publishers of any kind of Web content and their subscribers, based on HTTP web hooks. Subscription requests are relayed through hubs, which validate and verify the request. Hubs then distribute new and updated content to subscribers when it becomes available. WebSub was previously known as PubSubHubbub.
This website uses WebSub to manage subscriptions of both the old school RSS RSS is a Web content syndication format. Its name is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication. and ATOM The Atom content syndication format was developed as an alternative to RSS. It is codified in RFC 4287. varieties, and topic-specific notifications via each major section of the site. This site implements WebSub via Switchboard
WebSub is part of the IndieWeb set of technologies.