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Feed of recently published RFCs

To be notified of newly published RFCs, use the RSS feed or Atom feed.

Download RFCs Using rsync

To download RFCs and keep them up to date locally, use rsync.

To get the list of modules available type rsync rsync.rfc-editor.org:: This will return the following results:

Module Names Comments
everything-ftp Everything FTP
rfcs Contents of in-notes/ and subdirectories bcp/, fyi/, ien/, and std/
rfcs-text-only Text files from [rfcs]
rfc-ed-all Entire repository (excluding Internet-Drafts)
rfcs-pdf-only PDF versions of ASCII RFCs to ensure correct page breaks, etc.
rfcs-exclude-json Contents of [rfcs] excluding JSON files
rfcs-json-only Only the JSON files from the directories in [rfcs]
rfcs-pdf-all All PDFs

To create a mirror using a module

Type rsync -avz --delete rsync.rfc-editor.orgTarget-Directory

For example: To create a mirror of the text versions of all the RFCs, i.e.,

    
in-notes/*.txt
in-notes/bcp/*.txt
in-notes/fyi/*.txt
in-notes/ien/*.txt
in-notes/std/*.txt

type rsync -avz --delete rsync.rfc-editor.orgrfcs-text-only my-rfc-mirror

(The --delete option is useful for removing local copies of files that have been deleted from the repository as well as expired Internet-Drafts.)