RSS Feeds

Neighbourhood Alert RSS Feed Options

Standard Feed

A standard feed of all alerts (that have been made public) is available at https://v4-api.neighbourhoodalert.co.uk/RSS 

This includes the up to 15 Alerts from any Information Provider at any location sent within the last 90 days.

 Adding an RSS feed to Outlook

If you want to add this RSS feed to your outlook, to receive the updates directly into your inbox, this can be done as below:





If you navigate to the RSS feeds option, in the inbox section, then right-click this, then select 'add new RSS feed'. You will see an option to input a URL. As below:

 

This will allow you to input any URL for the RSS feed that you wish to add.

 

Advanced API RSS feeds:

Want something more specific?  If you have Beat/Ward pages on your website and want to instantly show the messages that your organisation (only) has sent to people in that area, this can be done easily. 

See an example of individual Ward/Beat pages on Humberside Police ward pages: https://www.humberside.police.uk/teams/drypool 

In this case VISAV Provided an individual feed for each ward in the force area and the web design company integrated the feeds into each page.

Please examine the components that you should include in your feed from the list below. 

Example feed

https://v4-api.neighbourhoodalert.co.uk/RSS?SiteId=134&Ip=20&AreaId=15715

This feed above returns 

Each feed can include a number of components, to return specific Alert messages:

Start of feed:
https://v4-api.neighbourhoodalert.co.uk/RSS
All feeds start with this and this code on its own will return the last 15 propagated messages from any area, provider or force

By Website
?SiteId=134
This filters all messages to only include ones that have been sent out from a particular website admin area
 

Example site numbers:

• Action Fraud Alert (National) = 149
• Bedfordshire Fire Alert = 126
• Beds Police Alert = 166
• Bee in the Loop (Greater Manchester) = 222
• Cheshire Police Alert = 94
• Derbyshire Alert = 83
• Devon & Cornwall Alert = 178
• Dorset Alert = 130
• eCops (Cambridgeshire) = 108
• Hampshire Alert = 134
• In The Know (Surrey) = 170
• Isle Of Wight Alert = 161
• Keep In The Know (Durham) = 163
• Lincolnshire Alert = 54
• My Community Alert (Humberside) = 188
• My Community Voice (Kent) = 215
• Neighbourhood Alert (National) = 20
• Neighbourhood Link (Leicestershire) = 28
• Neighbourhood Matters (West Mercia) = 5
• Neighbourhood Watch Scotland = 91
• North Wales Community Alert = 4
• North Yorkshire Police Alert = 213
• Northamptonshire Neighbourhood Alert = 77
• Northumbria Connected = 216
• Nottinghamshire Alert = 33
• OurWatch (Neighbourhood Watch England & Wales)  = 20
• Scottish Borders Alert = 133
• South Wales Listens = 221
• Staffordshire Smart Alert = 209
• Stay In The Know (Lancashire) = 137
• Sussex Alerts = 169
• South Yorkshire Alerts = 187
• Thames Valley Alert = 85
• Warwickshire Connected = 2
• West Yorkshire Community Alert = 204
• Wiltshire and Swindon Community Messaging = 135
• WMNow (West Midlands) = 172
• Your Community Alerts (Gloucestershire) = 186

Information Provider
&IP=20
You can have one Information Provider (IP) or leave this component out and it will return all Information Providers.
 

Information Provider ID examples.

• NHWN & Neighbourhood Watch Scotland = 1
• Fire & Rescue Services = 3
• Local Police = 20
• Trading Standards = 21
• Local Authority = 27
• Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner = 28
• Environment Agency = 29
• Action Fraud = 39
• Get Safe Online = 49

By area
&AreaId=15715
This refines the messages to only include messages sent to users within a pre-defined polygon area such as a beat, ward, community or an entire Force area.

Other data within the feed
Within the RSS feed Nodes within the RSS feed will enable you to locate more information about each message including:

• Information Provider Name
• Message Type
• Message Icon image: ​​​(provides a link to the .jpg message image)
• Message Title