How do I find RSS feeds?

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See also Distributing lists of feeds and Slash Style Sites.

Lists of RSS sources

  • NewsIsFree A large site that collects RSS and publishes feeds it finds.
  • My.UserLand New Channels
  • My.UserLand Channels that have been updated in the last 7 days
  • Newsfeeds A blog that specializes in promoting new feeds. Linked to the “Headline Viewer” RSS Reader.
  • Meerkat An aggregator. Browse around ’til you find what you like, and add &_fl=rss&t=ALL to the URL. Instructions here.
  • Moreover A typical moreover feed looks like this.

    http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?c=Vertical%20portals%20news&o=rss

  • The Amphetadesk list of known sources in XML format.
  • XMltree. A directory of XML sources (not just RSS)
  • The Headline Viewer core list
  • 10.am. Similar to Moreover.
  • Network 54 Browse to a page on the site and add ;xml=rss to the end.
  • Syndic8 An RSS evangelism project with lots of feeds.

    Most popular channels

  • Our Favorite Songs This page lists the most recently changed RSS files managed by the cloud that connects all Radio users together.

    Search Engines

  • Google search for PHP-Nuke style Portals
  • Another Google search for PHP-Nuke style Portals

    Unusual Sources and queries

  • Any Yahoogroups mailing list. Create a URL like http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_group/messages?rss=1 where “the_group” is the name of the mailing list.
  • Moreover Query. Create a URL like http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?o=rss&query=p2p where the query parameter is a properly escaped search string.

    Major RSS Generators
    Here’s the likely location of the RSS file. Add it onto the main URL and see if it works.

  • Manila based blogs – /rss/rss.xml
  • Slashcode based sites – /articles.rdf
  • Scoop based sites – /backend.rdf
  • php-nuke based sites – /backend.php

    • What’s an aggregator?

    An aggregator is a web site or system that collects RSS feeds from multiple sources and then does something with them. Usually this will involve collating and displaying the contents of each feed and perhaps creating new composite feeds from them.

    Many of the aggregators are also major sources of feeds which they create by scraping the html from sites that don’t produce their own.

    The most well known aggregators can be found in “How do I find RSS Feeds?“