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What is a “feed URL” and how do I find mine?

Most blogs have a special type of page, called a feed, that allows readers to know about the most recent entries without visiting the site. Many browsers, email programs, and some third-party sites provide the capability for people to view the feeds.

If you use any of the popular blogging programs, such as WordPress, Blogger, or TypePad, the odds are your program automatically generates a feed for you. To find your feed URL, find the “View Source” or “Page Source” option in your browser’s menu. This will show you the code that browsers use to create your page.

Somewhere near the top of the page, you should see some code that looks like this:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Blog RSS Feed” href="http://mywebsite.com/index.php/blog/rss_2.0/" />

or

<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Blog Atom Feed” href="http://mywebsite.com/index.php/blog/atom/" />

You are looking for the line that starts ‘<link rel="alternate" ‘; the type should say something about RSS or Atom. Your feed URL is everything contained within the ‘href=” “ ‘ section. In the above examples, the feed URLS are

http://mywebsite.com/index.php/blog/rss_2.0

and

http://mywebsite.com/index.php/blog/atom

If you have several options available, select the RSS 2.0 option. Our feed parser can read this feed the most easily. If you enter an Atom feed URL, you will probably only see the title of your entries on your blog profile page.

June 05, 2008

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