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How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds
(openrss.org)
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How would this work? Do websites with rss feeds normally publish the url to that feed in some standard place? Are there any third party extensions that do it?
feeds are usually advertised in the page header as below, with
type
set to eitherapplication/rss+xml
orapplication/atom+xml
.i don't know about chrom[e|ium], but i use Awesome RSS for firefox.
How did I not know websites did this. Here I was always trying to guess the urls a few times before giving up lol. Today I learned...
Thanks for the extension suggestion too!
Most readers will also do this auto-discovery for you. So typically you can just paste the page or article URL and it will find the feed.
Of course the extension is nicer because you don't need to guess and check, you get a quick indicator if there is a feed or not.
Personally I use Want My RSS because I like the preview which then lets me know if it is a full-text feed or just summaries. This is also Firefox only. But extensions for other browsers are available.
That's perfect since I use FF anyway, thanks