How to Find or Create an RSS Feed for Any Website

Author: Justin Pot / Source: howtogeek.com

If you’re still a dedicated RSS user, you’ve no doubt noticed some sites no longer go out of their way to cater to you. Where once an RSS logo would be prominently displayed, now it’s nowhere to be found. How are you supposed to find RSS feeds?

Before you try one of the below options, try contacting the people behind your favorite sites: often they’ll get back to your with a URL.

But when that fails, you need to take matters into your own hands. Here’s how to find, or even create, an RSS feed for any site, even when one isn’t prominently offered.

NOTE: If you stumbled here looking for our RSS feed, here it is!

Finding Hidden RSS Feeds on Most Sites

Most sites are built using a Content Management System, or CMS. Every major CMS offers an RSS feed by default, meaning an RSS exists for such sites whether the site’s creators realize that or not. In these cases, you can use a simple URL hack to find the RSS feed.

Around 25 percent of sites are built using WordPress, for example. Many others are built on platforms like Google’s Blogger, Yahoo’s Tumblr, or Medium. Here’s how to find RSS feeds for all of those.

• If a site is built using WordPress, simply add /feed to the end of the URL, for example https://example.wordpress.com/feed. You can also do this for category and pages, to get specific RSS feeds. Read more here.
• If a site is hosted on Blogger, simply add feeds/posts/default to the end of the URL, for example http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default. Read more here.
• If a blog is hosted on Medium.com, simply insert /feed/ before the publication’s name in the URL.
  For example medium.com/example-site becomes medium.com/feed/example-site. You can do the same thing for individual author pages,…

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