Unexpected RSS Feeds
And where to find them
So you got a feed reader, and you want to know what you can subscribe to beyond blogs and news sites? (And if you don’t have one, you should consider it!) There are a lot of sites that have RSS feeds, but not all of them indicate it on their page, * Feed readers can automatically find these URLs if they are in the markup. so let me share all that I found!
YouTube
I wrote a whole blog post about how YouTube is better with RSS, where you can not only subscribe to any YouTube channel or playlist, but also only a creator’s videos or shorts or livestreams!
You can add .rss to the end of the url of any feed and get an RSS feed! If you’re using the top feed sorted by time, put .rss before the ?.
https://reddit.com/r/cats.rss
https://reddit.com/r/cats/top.rss?t=weekBluesky
Similarly, you can add /rss to the end of anyone’s Bluesky profile and get an RSS feed. Unfortunately, it does not include image embeds and only contains public posts. Open RSS seems to offer an improved version of Bluesky’s RSS feeds, so they’re worth a try.
https://bsky.app/profile/lotsoflatte.bsky.social/rssMastodon
You can follow an account by adding .rss to the end of their profile URL, but keep in mind this only works on their home server! You can also do the same to a tag, but there doesn’t appear to be any way to follow entire instances.
https://woof.tech/@bagelcollie.rss
https://mastodon.social/tags/mastodon.rssTumblr
You can add /rss to the end of a Tumblr account to get an RSS feed, but this has to be their main page where the username in the URL is before “tumblr.com”. * Unless they have a custom domain.
https://important-animal-images.tumblr.com/rssDiscourse
Discourse is a forum software, and you can slap .rss to the end of any URL and get a feed, you get the drill by now :P It has a lot of different RSS feeds, so do check this thread to see all it can do.
https://meta.discourse.org/t/finding-discourse-rss-feeds/264134.rssGitHub
You can get RSS feeds for commits, releases, and the public activity of specific users by appending .atom to any of those URLs.
https://github.com/Chailotl.atom
https://github.com/Chailotl/web-to-epub/releases.atom
https://github.com/Chailotl/particular/commits/master.atomPodcasts
Every podcast uses RSS feeds to deliver to your podcast app, including podcasts on Spotify! You would normally use a dedicated podcast app, but any feed reader would work.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia has a few interesting RSS feeds, and to-rss.xyz hosts a custom current events feed based on Wikipedia.
Et Cetera
If you want even more RSS feeds, here are a few more resources I found.
Awesome RSS Feeds
A directory of curated lists of RSS feeds for a plethora of categories and news sources across countries.
indieblog.page
Daily or weekly dose of random indie blog posts :o
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