Find RSS Feeds on the Web

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RSS is a technology that enables the reader to grab new writing from many different newspapers and blogs, and to display it all together in one easy-to-read place. You can use an RSS reader tool on your PC or even on a new personalized Google homepage. All you've gotta do now is to find a good RSS feed on the web.

Steps

  1. Visit a directory of RSS feeds. There are several sites attempting to categorize all the RSS feeds out there.
  2. Search for RSS feeds using a search engine designed to find them. Look for third-party RSS feed search engines. They are also sparse, but they do exist. One such example is this organization who has this search engine that hosts a search for RSS feeds.
  3. Recognize that many other of your favorite websites may also have RSS feeds. For example, wikiHow publishes an RSS feed that includes one hand selected article each day from wikiHow. The URL for this feed is www.wikihow.com/.
    • Look through some of your favorite sites to see if they have any RSS feeds. Chance are that they might, or have ways to find ways to find their RSS feeds if they aren't shown to the user at first. They might have a page that lists some of the feeds they host.
    • Look through the website's source code. Although most RSS readers will trigger from reading this line, if the source code has errors, the reader won't trigger the link and you'll have to dig a little to find it. You might find them in a line similar to<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS Feed" href="http://example.org/rss" />. Copy the address down after the part that says "href" and post that into your RSS feed aggregator or RSS software to read the feed items.[1]
  4. Search the web for RSS feeds. Type the topic of interest followed by a comma and then "RSS" or "RSS feed". You might be able to find something that appeals to your taste.
  5. Use a RSS feed finding software/aggregators. See if it finds something you are interested in. Digg has it's own reader, along with another aggregator called Blogs that can help you access RSS feeds that you might not be familiar with right now.
  6. Ask friends if they use any RSS feeds. They might have some suggestions for you to use. Try them out for a short time and see if the idea appeals to you.

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Tips

  • Downloading the newest version of Internet Explorer gives RSS feed support in-browser.
  • Recognize what it takes for a company to publish a feed. Although the information is sparse on cyberspace, it really doesn't take a brain scientist to figure out what it's all about.

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Sources and Citations

  1. ↑ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6327146/how-to-find-rss-feed-of-a-particular-website
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