Most websites bury or skip their RSS feed URL entirely. Here are 4 reliable methods to get an RSS feed URL from any site — plus the point where switching to a news API saves more time than another scraper ever would.
Converting a whole site to RSS means covering every section that publishes content — not just one page. Here are the real sitemap-based methods, their limits, and when a content API replaces the whole job.
Most websites don’t hand you an RSS feed anymore. Here are 5 reliable methods to convert any page to RSS — from native detection to custom scrapers — plus when a news API beats the whole approach.
How to Build a Website or App with a News API (Instead of Wiring API to API Yourself) In this article: The basic shape: your app’s API talking to a news API DIY multi-source pipeline vs. one news API Building a website with live news content Building an app: mobile-specific considerations Where the API call…
RSS Feed Format Example: What’s Actually Inside That XML File In this article: What does a real RSS feed format example actually look like? Why “just follow the spec” seems like enough 1. Real feeds mix in vendor-specific namespaces 2. Encoding and escaping breaks more often than it should 3. Date formats aren’t as standard…
JSON News Feed Format: What It Looks Like and Why It Replaced XML In this article: What does a JSON news feed actually look like? Why JSON quietly took over from XML Parsing a JSON news feed in practice The format was never really the hard part A common use case: feeding JSON news into…
How to Find the RSS Feed URL for Any Website (Even When It’s Hidden) In this article: What’s the fastest way to find a site’s RSS feed URL? Why most sites hide their feed URL in the first place 1. URL guessing only works on sites you already understand 2. Digging through view-source works, until…
How to Convert Any Page to RSS (No Plugin Needed) In this article: What’s the fastest way to convert a page to RSS? Why “just use a feed generator” seems like the obvious fix 1. The page has no consistent structure to scrape 2. You’re now maintaining a scraper, not reading news 3. Rate limits…
