News format
The news feed is stored in your save directory as news/news.dat. The news images are stored in the same folder.
To decode news.dat, you need to Base64-decode it and Gzip-decompress it.
The news feed is split into 2 parts:
{header}|{entries}Header format
The header is in the format {version},{entryCount}. {version} corresponds to the version at https://geometrydashfiles.b-cdn.net/news/news_version.txt.
Entries format
NOTE
All forms of text support newlines, emojis (ex. :eyes:), and color tags.
{entries} is a list of news entries, sorted newest first, separated by |.
Each entry is structured with key:value pairing, with each pair being separated with ;. The list of known keys can be found in the table below:
| Key | Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Entry ID | Integer | The news entry ID |
| 2 | Date | String | The date of the news entry in plaintext (ex. "January 1, 1970"), encoded in base64 |
| 3 | Title | String | The title of the news entry, encoded in base64 |
| 4 | Elements | String | The elements of the news entry |
Elements format
Elements are in the format {type},{data}, and are separated by ~.
There are 3 known types of elements that can be in a news entry. Information about each type can be found below:
type | Name | Description | data format |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Text | A text element | {b64 text} |
| 1 | Image | An image element with an optional URL | {filename},{width},{height},{isYouTube},{b64 url} |
| 2 | Link | A text element, but clickable | {b64 text},{b64 url} |
Image element structure
| Segment | Description |
|---|---|
filename | The file name of the image accessible at https://geometrydashfiles.b-cdn.net/news/{filename} |
width | The width of the image in pixels |
height | The height of the image in pixels |
isYouTube | 0 for false and 1 for true. If true, a play button will be drawn over the image |
url | The optional URL opened when clicking the image, encoded in base64. If blank, the image will not be clickable |
NOTE
RobTop uses the format news_{entry id}_{0-based element position}_{hash}.{ext} for the image file names. This is not required.
Example
Example decoded news.dat (version 5)
md
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