Whether on its homepage, navigation, footer, or even on the listing pages themselves. If you’re lucky, the website will just give you a link to its RSS feed. RSS feeds aren’t a file you download and then do something with - it’s always a snapshot of the current content, so needs to be checked repeatedly to keep up-to-date. If you put the URL to this file into your RSS reader (or “aggregators” as they’re also known), it’ll monitor the URL, parse its contents and create a list of articles or other content for your consumption. RSS feeds are just an XML file that a server generates. #How do you find feeds?īefore you can use a feed, you need to know its URL. If you’re looking for an RSS feed, and only find an atom feed, try using that URL and seeing if your reader supports it. Most RSS readers will happily accept both formats, hence I and many others just refer to them both as “RSS feeds”. The structure itself has some newer features, but the gist of it remains the same: It’s an XML format containing a feed of content. Atom is a slightly newer standard, but achieves the same thing. The most popular of which, by a long way, is RSS. In this article, when I say “RSS Feed”, I’m talking about a standardized feed of content which is easy to consume. It’s all well and good knowing about RSS, or even using it, but finding the feeds can be a different beast altogether. Because it’s an open standard, and a fairly simple one at that, you’ll find it in a very large number of places - even YouTube.
RSS is an open standard for “content syndication”, which basically means you can scrape a list of content from a website and then read it wherever and however you want.
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