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  • @[email protected]
    9•4 months ago

    The browser had a built-in RSS button that would display in the browser location bar when any website you’re on had an RSS feed available. Clicking the button would then take you to the RSS feed for that web page

    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?

    • onoira [they/them]English
      34•4 months ago

      How would this work? Do websites with rss feeds normally publish the url to that feed in some standard place?

      feeds are usually advertised in the page header as below, with type set to either application/rss+xml or application/atom+xml.

      Are there any third party extensions that do it?

      i don’t know about chrom[e|ium], but i use Awesome RSS for firefox.

      • Mikelius
        11•4 months ago

        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!

        • @[email protected]
          2•4 months ago

          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.

    • @[email protected]
      7•4 months ago

      Also, some (most?) RSS readers don’t need the path to the feed directly. You give them the regular URL and they’ll figure it out. TinyTinyRSS does it.