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Finding feeds

You do not need to hunt for the feed URL yourself — just enter the site's URL and it is found for you. This page also covers what to do when it still will not turn up.

Just paste the site URL

Enter a site’s homepage URL and the feed location declared on that page is read automatically. That covers most sites.

There is no need to go looking for an RSS icon or link.

When nothing is found

If auto-detection comes up empty, these usually work:

Sites with no feed at all

Sites that publish no feed can still be followed: updates are detected from their pages and turned into a feed. This is available after signing in.

Because it is expensive to fetch, there are limits on how many such feeds one account can have and how often they are checked. Sites that disallow it in robots.txt are not fetched.

Check before you subscribe

Every feed page shows articles per week, the hours it usually posts, a 52-week trend, and its fetch status. You can tell whether a feed will flood you before you subscribe to it.

Feeds that have stopped updating say so, so you will not accidentally subscribe to something that died years ago.

FAQ

What if I don't know the RSS URL?
You don't need it. Enter the site's homepage URL and the feed is found automatically.
What happens if more than one feed is found?
They're listed as candidates. This happens when a site publishes more than one format — RSS and Atom, for example — at once.
Can I tell if a feed has stopped updating?
Yes. Every feed page shows when it last updated, so you can check before subscribing.

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