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How to get the rss feed of a website?

How to get the RSS feed of a website?

There was a time that most of the websites had a page that links to the different RSS feeds they provided, now most of the websites have removed those pages and links making it difficult for the average user to find them.

Today we are going to share with you few tips to learn how to obtain the RSS feed link from most websites so you can use it to automatically update content on your Meloenga Digital Business Card.

RSS feed from almost any website

This works best with WordPress websites, tumblr, medium.com publications or blogspot sites
1. Go to your website or any website you are trying to find the RSS feed for and try adding “feed/”,”RSS/” at the end of the domain
https://www.meloenga.com/feed/
https://www.meloenga.com/rss/

If you don’t get a page not found error and you get an xml code that this, then that would be your RSS feed link your are looking for.

How to get the rss feed of a website

rss feeds

2. You can also try the same for a section of the website, look at the example below where we successfully found the link to RSS feed for the shop
https://www.meloenga.com/shop/feed/

RSS feed for the shop

RSS feed to a YouTube Channel

RSS feed to a YouTube Channel

In most cases using the channel URL address is sufficient to use for the RSS button on the Meloenga Digital Business Card Profile Editor. But in very few cases you would need the link to the xml version of the feel to make it work. To get that follow those steps.

1. To create an RSS feed to a YouTube channel we should first get the channel ID, and to do that go to channel and copy the code after channel/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE2Z7GfkrkMg1p6uVQ5UK7w

2. Use this RSS URL to Paste your channel ID after “id=”
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=PASTE_CHANNEL_ID_HERE

3. The final RSS feed for your channel should look like this:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCE2Z7GfkrkMg1p6uVQ5UK7w
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCVRmL_qcjQiILW1FcNsZiFw
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCobCSf602OZ8N2NH7JZlWpw

ETSY shop RSS feed

Use the URL below and replace the “user_name” with your ETSY shop name, or simply add rss at the end of your store URL
https://www.etsy.com/shop/user_name/rss

RSS feed from BBC weather forecast

RSS feed from BBC weather forecast

1. Go to https://www.bbc.com/weather and enter your city name, in this example we entered our city name “Deventer”

RSS feed from BBC weather forecast

2. Copy your city ID (highlighted in green) from the URL of the weather forecast page https://www.bbc.com/weather/2756987
3. Paste the city ID at the end of the url below to generate your 3day weather forecast RSS feed link
https://weather-broker-cdn.api.bbci.co.uk/en/forecast/rss/3day/
4. Your 3day weather forecast RSS feed link should look like this:
https://weather-broker-cdn.api.bbci.co.uk/en/forecast/rss/3day/2756987

RSS feed directories

Feedspot.com is home to many RSS feed listings below are two famous links for world news and sports:
https://blog.feedspot.com/world_news_rss_feeds/
https://blog.feedspot.com/sports_news_rss_feeds/

https://blog.feedspot.com/weather_rss_feeds/
https://blog.feedspot.com/fashion_rss_feeds/

RSS feed directories

If all fails

If everything fails from the above options, your can create auto-updated RSS feeds from your favorite websites to aggregate and curate them in a fast and easy way using the RSS creator from  https://rss.app/ or http://fetchrss.com/

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