Tag Archives: rss

Subscription URLs for popular feed readers

Here are the feed subscription URLs to add new feeds to some of the most popular feed readers out there:

Newsblur
http://www.newsblur.com/?url=%s

Feedly
http://cloud.feedly.com/#subscription%2Ffeed%2F%s

The Old Reader
http://theoldreader.com/feeds/subscribe?url=%s

Bloglines
http://www.bloglines.com/login?r=/sub/%s

The %s should be replaced by the feed URL you are going to add. You can use these to add custom readers to extensions like Chrome’s RSS Subscription Extension.

I couldn’t find the URLs for Digg Reader and Blogovin which seem to be popular among many. 😕 If your feed reader doesn’t give a good public API it isn’t worth staying at anyway. 😉

RSS to Email: the right way

Need the updates of some RSS feeds in you email inbox? A simple IFTTT recipe can do that for you. And no, no need to create a recipe for each feed or merge the feeds into one feed. Simply add the feeds to a specific folder/tag in Google Reader (eg: mail) and ask IFTTT to mail you all new items in that tag. To save you time, here’s a public recipe you can use.