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Lately, I've been getting back into RSS to stay up to date with industry news. I've noticed a lot of industry blogs still support RSS. On Mac, I've been using

Lately, I've been getting back into RSS to stay up to date with industry news. I've noticed a lot of industry blogs still support RSS. On Mac, I've been using Leaf with no real complaints. I've found many blogs happily serve rss content, even if a button isn't explicitly advertised. Some of the url's I'll try: * example.com/rss.xml * example.com/index.rss * example.com/?feed=rss * example.com/feed/ * exmample.com/feed/rss

jamiek88 8y ago
There’s a couple safari extensions on the store that will do that for you. I use rssfind.
latexr 8y ago
> Some of the url's I'll try Try just the domain in Leaf; it might autodetect the feed URL. I use Reeder[1], and that method never failed me. [1]: http://reederapp.com/ http://reederapp.com/
mike-cardwell 8y ago
I tend to just "View Source" and then search for "rss/feed/atom". There's usually a <link/> header in there pointing to one or more feeds.
Arkanosis 8y ago
I usually find RSS feeds by looking at the page source code: - ctrl+u - ctrl+f rss - ctrl+f atom (only if “rss” was not found at step 2). I can't remember of any site providing RSS on which this hasn't worked. Actually, even for sites that advertise their RSS feed, this approach is the fastest for me (because of the lack of consistency of such advertisements).
- captn3m0 8y ago
  This used to be easy with RSS support in Firefox. Not anymore
- dmit 8y ago
  Same, except I favor the Atom protocol because from previous research (performed a long time ago, to be fair) it was strictly an improvement over RSS in every regard. There is a highly-rated extension to automate this, but I've grown to distrust extensions that require "Access your data for all websites", and scouring the page source for the relevant <link> tag is not particularly cumbersome.
layoutIfNeeded 8y ago
That’s literally the best thing about it. Many sites don’t even know that they serve RSS, so they don’t get filled with adtech crap.
rsscircus 8y ago
When you use the Wappalyzer browser extension (https://www.wappalyzer.com/download https://www.wappalyzer.com/download for Firefox, Chrome, Brave) you can detect the platform (CMS) used. WordPress? Add /feed/ For more tips: go to https://wordpress.org/support/article/wordpress-feeds/ https://wordpress.org/support/article/wordpress-feeds/ Drupal? Try rss.xml ?feed=rss /feed/ Joomla? You can try ?format=feed&type=rss or /itemlist/?format=feed Blogger? Add /feeds/posts/default *Spip ? Try /spip.php?page=backend

jamiek88 8y ago

There’s a couple safari extensions on the store that will do that for you. I use rssfind.

latexr 8y ago

> Some of the url's I'll try Try just the domain in Leaf; it might autodetect the feed URL. I use Reeder[1], and that method never failed me. [1]: http://reederapp.com/ http://reederapp.com/

mike-cardwell 8y ago

I tend to just "View Source" and then search for "rss/feed/atom". There's usually a <link/> header in there pointing to one or more feeds.

Arkanosis 8y ago

I usually find RSS feeds by looking at the page source code: - ctrl+u - ctrl+f rss - ctrl+f atom (only if “rss” was not found at step 2). I can't remember of any site providing RSS on which this hasn't worked. Actually, even for sites that advertise their RSS feed, this approach is the fastest for me (because of the lack of consistency of such advertisements).

captn3m0 8y ago
This used to be easy with RSS support in Firefox. Not anymore
dmit 8y ago
Same, except I favor the Atom protocol because from previous research (performed a long time ago, to be fair) it was strictly an improvement over RSS in every regard. There is a highly-rated extension to automate this, but I've grown to distrust extensions that require "Access your data for all websites", and scouring the page source for the relevant <link> tag is not particularly cumbersome.

layoutIfNeeded 8y ago

That’s literally the best thing about it. Many sites don’t even know that they serve RSS, so they don’t get filled with adtech crap.

rsscircus 8y ago

When you use the Wappalyzer browser extension (https://www.wappalyzer.com/download https://www.wappalyzer.com/download for Firefox, Chrome, Brave) you can detect the platform (CMS) used. WordPress? Add /feed/ For more tips: go to https://wordpress.org/support/article/wordpress-feeds/ https://wordpress.org/support/article/wordpress-feeds/ Drupal? Try rss.xml ?feed=rss /feed/ Joomla? You can try ?format=feed&type=rss or /itemlist/?format=feed Blogger? Add /feeds/posts/default *Spip ? Try /spip.php?page=backend