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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 NamesComments
everything-ftpEverything FTP
rfcsContents of in-notes/ and subdirectories bcp/, fyi/, ien/, and std/
rfcs-text-onlyText files from [rfcs]
rfc-ed-allEntire repository (excluding Internet-Drafts)
rfcs-pdf-onlyPDF versions of ASCII RFCs to ensure correct page breaks, etc.
rfcs-exclude-jsonContents of [rfcs] excluding JSON files
rfcs-json-onlyOnly the JSON files from the directories in [rfcs]
rfcs-pdf-allAll PDFs

To create a mirror using a module

Type rsync -avz --delete rsync.rfc-editor.org::Module-Name Target-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.org::rfcs-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.)