Figuring out the RSS feed of a web-site
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/10
RSS feed icon (source: Wikipedia)
The main way I consume news is through RSS feeds using Feedly as reader (after Google killed one of their best products: Google Reader in 2013). Many web-site do not show an RSS link or RSS icon on their home pages or other pages.
Below samples of sites followed by steps on how to find RSS Feeds.
From local examples I encountered most didn’t show they had RSS feeds or had not RSS feed at all:
The simplest three ways to find them are:
- RSS link/icon on web-page
- Put home page into Feedly discover and have it figure out
- Use the Get RSS Feed URL below (works even if you have disabled JavaScript on pages)
- Open the source of the web page, then search for RSS and feed, then deduct from there
- Try appending suffixes for the URLS (via the links below), starting with
/feedas that is common for WordPress web-sites and those still dominate the web-site world.
Suffixes:
- …/feed/
- …/rss/
- …/blog/feed/
- …/blog/rss/
- …/feed.xml
- …/rss.xml
- …/rss/index.html
- …/rss/news.xml
- …/blog/rss.xml
- …/feeds/posts/default
- …/?format=feed
- …/articles/feed
- …/rss/featured/
- If a publication is hosted on Medium, add
/feed/before the publication’s name. Somedium.com/example-sitebecomesmedium.com/feed/example-site - YouTube channel pages double as RSS feeds. Simply copy and paste the URL for the channel into your RSS reader. You can also find an OPML file for all of your subscriptions here.
Links:
- [Wayback/Archive] How to Find RSS Feed URLs | Ocoya Help Center
- [Wayback/Archive] How to find the RSS feed URL for almost any site | Zapier (who mentioned the blogger, medium and youtube tricks)
- [Wayback/Archive] How Can I Find the RSS Feed of a Website? – SocialBee Help Documentation (which mentioned the Get RSS Feed URL. extension below)
Tool (Chromium only, usable in Chrome and Edge) that worked very well: [Wayback/Archive] Get RSS Feed URL – Chrome Web Store open source at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – shevabam/get-rss-feed-url-extension: Retreive RSS feeds URLs from WebSite – Chrome Extension which is a reminder for me to check these issues that were open when writing this blog post:
- [Wayback/Archive] More suffixes to try in `tryToGetFeedURL` · Issue #37 · shevabam/get-rss-feed-url-extension · GitHub
- [Wayback/Archive] Couldn’t detect feed on eBuam’s World · Issue #35 · shevabam/get-rss-feed-url-extension · GitHub
- [Wayback/Archive] Use Release Feed for Spotify and Bandcamp · Issue #32 · shevabam/get-rss-feed-url-extension · GitHub
- [Wayback/Archive] New fork · Issue #27 · shevabam/get-rss-feed-url-extension · GitHub which you can install through[Wayback/Archive] Get RSS Feed URL for Slick RSS – Chrome Web Store and source code from [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – gandf/get-rss-feed-url-extension-for-slick-rss: Retreive RSS feeds URLs from WebSite – Chrome Extension
- [Wayback/Archive] [feature req.] add detection for more sites · Issue #25 · shevabam/get-rss-feed-url-extension · GitHub
Tools that try to get RSS feeds from web pages, but usually fail when it is not an obvious feed links:
- [Wayback/Archive] GetRSSFeed: RSS Feed Extractor & Finder for Websites, Blogs & Podcasts
- [Wayback/Archive] Create RSS feeds from almost any website
- [Wayback/Archive] RSS Generator – FetchRSS
Of interest: [Wayback/Archive] ReleaseFeed
a tool for generating Atom Feeds of the releases of your favorite artists on various streaming platforms.
Source code: [Wayback/Archive] elomatreb/releasefeed: Generate Atom feeds for releases on music streaming platforms – Codeberg.org
Query: [Wayback/Archive] get rss from site – Google Search
--jeroen
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