Systemspace Network List
Network Enhancement Idea 9
Quintuplicate
21 August 2021
[Affected by NEIs: 12]
FORMAT REQUIREMENTS FOR NEIS AND HOW TO USE FEED
0. Introductory Note
Although I am the author of this NEI and Feed, much credit is due to Yori for giving me the idea for it, criticizing my code, and advising me in general. I intend this NEI to be read by authors of NEIs and users of Feed; I therefore include (I) requirements for formatting NEIs so that Feed can read them; (II) a description of what Feed does and how to use it.

I. Format Requirements for NEIs
Feed reads NEIs using their headers, which must look like this (sans the line numbers):
0 Systemspace Network List
1 Network Enhancement Idea #
2 Author
3 Date
4 TITLE

Notes (see line numbers):
1. The chief secretary (see NEI 6) assigns NEI numbers (#).
2. Username(s) of the author(s).
3. Should be in European "day month year" form but may be in American "month day, year" form.
Between lines 3 and 4, the secretary may add headnotes.
4. Title, which must be in ALL CAPS but need not be unique. 

This part supersedes anything in part IV of NEI 6 if the two conflict.

II. How to Use Feed
Feed is named after the omnipotent brain implant envisioned in M. T. Anderson's eponymous novel. Our Feed, of course, does far less. It parses NEIs and generates JSON feed entries for them. You need Python, and to pip install requests, to use it.

A copy of the official JSON feed needs a header. Here it is, since Feed won't generate it for you.
{
  "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", 
  "title": "Network Enhancement Ideas Feed", 
  "home_page_url": "https://quintuplicate.neocities.org/nei/", 
  "feed_url": "*", 
  "description": "+", 
  "language": "en", 
  "items": [
 ]
}

* Replace this with the URL of your own feed.
+ Replace this with your own explanation of what NEIs are.

Here's what Feed does do for you. Run it. When it asks you what NEI you would like to enter, type its number. In a moment, you should have a long string of text that begins {"id"... Copy this, and put this between the opening square bracket [ and the closing square bracket ] after "items". If you want to have multiple NEIs in your feed, you have to put a comma , after the last closing curly bracket } you paste. Spacing is for convenience and ease of viewing, but not essential.