Feed Specification
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Exposing file
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Our feed parser can use **HTTP** or **FTP** to download your feed file. Althought **HTTP** is prefered.

XML Structure
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Feed is composed of following elements:

* **liste** - root element
  * **externe_quelle** - name of the service (for example: eBay.com, Amazon.com, Anounz.de)
  * **anzeige** - ad element

* **anzeige** element contains following:
  * **kategorie** - category id of your ad
  * **plz** - German postal code of ad
  * **typ** - ad type (for sale, offered, wanted, swap, for free)
  * **anfrag** - start date
  * **ende** - end date
  * **stand** - last update date time
  * **titel** - title of ad
  * **text** - description
  * **externe_id** - id of ad in you database, so we can point back to it
  * **externer_link** - link to ad in your service

Those are **REQUIRED** elements. They are necessary for our feed parser to importing and synchronizing content. There can be also some extra elements if you want. Parser will just ignore them or if they are important for us we'll used them as well. Everything is to determine, and can be customised after all sides agree on it.

Below is sample XML file from Betreut.de, our partner, which we're aggregating. It contains 5 sample ads.