The orange RSS icon has quietly disappeared from most websites, but the feeds behind it usually have not. Here is how to find them, starting with the method that works most often.
1. Paste the site address into your reader
Every modern reader looks for the feed when you give it a normal web address. Paste https://example.com rather than hunting for the feed yourself. It works for the large majority of sites, because they announce their feed in a hidden line of the page’s code.
2. Try the usual addresses
If the reader finds nothing, add one of these to the end of the site address:
/feed/— WordPress and many others/rssor/rss.xml/atom.xmlor/feed.xml— common on static sites/index.xml— Hugo sites/blog/rss— when the blog lives in a section
3. Look at the page source
In your browser, open the page source (Ctrl+U on Windows and Linux, Cmd+Option+U on a Mac) and search for application/rss+xml or application/atom+xml. The address next to it, in the href, is the feed.
4. Platforms with predictable feeds
| Platform | Feed address |
|---|---|
| Substack | https://name.substack.com/feed |
| Medium | https://medium.com/feed/@username |
| Tumblr | https://name.tumblr.com/rss |
| Blogger | https://name.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default |
Add .rss to almost any Reddit address |
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| GitHub releases | https://github.com/user/repo/releases.atom |
YouTube has feeds too, but finding the right address takes a step more; we explain it in its own guide.
5. Category and search feeds
Many sites offer feeds for parts of the site, which is useful when you only care about one section. On WordPress, every category, tag and author has a feed: add /feed/ to the end of the category page address. News sites often list their section feeds on a page called “RSS” in the footer.
6. When there really is no feed
Some sites have none. In that case you have two options. Some readers, Inoreader among them, can watch a page and create a feed from its changes. Or you can use a feed-generating service or self-hosted tool such as RSS-Bridge, which builds feeds for many sites that do not offer one. Results vary, and they can break when the site changes its design.
