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Sunday, August 14, 2005

Feed or NO Feed?

How do I know if a web site has a feed or not that my news aggregator (BottomFeeder) can use?

Usually, the web page that has a feed available will have an small icon labeled with one of RSS/RSS 1/RSS 2/Atom/XML. RSS and Atom are 2 different XML-based newsfeed formats. Alternatively, you may just see a link labeled something like Feed/Newsfeed/Sitefeed (this blog has a sitefeed link).

If you click on the icon or link, you will see some XML code in your browser. That is NOT what you are interested in. What you want is the URL. So, copy the URL from the browser and paste it into BottomFeeder.

1 comment:

Peter Leung said...

Thanks, James.

I'll try it out.

Peter