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What is an RSS feed?

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This article will help you understand more about RSS feeds and how to get them for using in our Auto Import feature

An RSS feed is a computer parsable representation of a website or blog. In other words, the formatting is stripped from a website and just the meat of it is written to a feed. This makes it easier for computers to make sense of rich data to do things such as recommend news articles or create new content items for you.


How Do I Find My RSS Feed


Medium

Prepend 'feed' to your favorite author's Medium username in the URL. For example:

https://medium.com/feed/@rabiasagheer6575

 

Or if you want to get the feed for a publication such as Hacker Noon, append 'feed' to their domain:

https://hackernoon.com/feed


Wordpress

Similarly, append 'feed' to blogs with custom domain names:


https://wordpress.com/blog/feed/

Squarespace

Open the Squarespace page you want the feed for and append '?format=rss' like this:

 

https://www.squarespace.com/blog?format=rss

YouTube

Visit your YouTube channel's home page. Once you're there, you need to right-click and View Page source (or just use CMD+U / CTRL+U). Use CMD+F / CTRL+F to look for title="RSS" in the page source. Copy the link to the right.
Blogspot / Blogger

Append '/default?alt=rss' to any Blogspot post feed.


https://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Weebly

Append '/1/feed' to your Weebly site:


https://www.yourdomain.com/1/feed


Wix

Append '/blog-feed.xml' to your Wix website URL.


https://www.yourdomain.com/blog-feed.xml

All Others

Please consult your web hoster or hostmaster.

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