How to Find the RSS Feed of a Website (5 Easy Ways)
Five quick ways to find a siteβs RSS feed URL, and what to do when there isnβt one.
An RSS feed lets you follow a website's new posts in a feed reader, send them to a newsletter, or post them to social media automatically. Many websites have a feed but do not show a link to it. Here is how to find it.
1. Look for an RSS link or icon
Check the header, footer, sidebar and blog page for an orange RSS icon or links labelled "RSS", "Feed" or "Subscribe". Click it and copy the address.
2. Try common feed addresses
Add these to the end of the domain and see which one loads XML:
/feedor/feed/β common on many blogging platforms./rssor/rss.xml/atom.xmlor/feed.xml/blog/feedor/blog/rss.xmlβ when the blog is in a folder./feeds/posts/defaultβ used by some hosted blog services.
Category feeds often exist too, such as /category/recipes/feed.
3. Check the page source
Open the page, view its source (right-click β View page source) and search for application/rss+xml or application/atom+xml. The href next to it is the feed URL. This is the most reliable method.
4. Use a feed reader
Most feed readers let you paste a website's address and will find the feed automatically if the site declares one.
5. Check the platform
Video channels, podcasts and news sites often publish feeds in standard locations. Podcast feeds are usually linked from the podcast's website or directory listing.
What if the site has no feed?
Some sites simply do not publish one. You can ask the owner, follow them by email newsletter, or use a page-to-feed service that watches a page for changes. If it is your own website, create a feed so others can follow you β the RSS feed generator builds a valid feed from your content. Read how to create an RSS feed for your website.
Make your own feed easy to find
- Add a
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">tag to your page head. - Show a visible RSS or "Subscribe" link.
- Use the feed to power an email newsletter β see RSS feed to email newsletter.
New to feeds? Read what an RSS feed is.
A worked example
A marketing team wanted to follow 30 industry blogs in one place. Ten had visible RSS links. For the rest, adding /feed worked for twelve, and the page source revealed the feed for five more. Three had no feed, so the team subscribed to their newsletters instead. All updates now arrive in one reader each morning.
Useful things to do with feeds
- Follow competitors to see what they publish without visiting their sites.
- Collect industry news in a reader for your weekly research.
- Auto-share your posts to social media.
- Power a newsletter that sends new posts automatically.
- Show headlines from a partner's blog on your own site, with links back.
Feeds remain one of the simplest ways to move content between tools without manual copying.
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Frequently asked questions
Do all websites have an RSS feed?
No, but many blogs and news sites do, even if they do not link to it.
What does an RSS feed look like?
It is an XML file listing recent posts with titles, links, dates and summaries.
Is RSS still used?
Yes β by feed readers, podcasts, newsletters and automation tools.
What is the difference between RSS and Atom?
They are two feed formats that do the same job. Most readers support both.