RSS Feed Parser

What is the RSS Feed Parser?

The RSS Feed Parser is a free tool that reads an RSS 2.0 or Atom feed from its URL and lists every item in it. For each item it shows the link, the title and the date, and it can copy every item URL at once, ready to paste into a spreadsheet, a crawler or a URL checker.

How to use the RSS Feed Parser

1. Paste the feed's own URL, the address that returns XML, such as https://example.com/feed.xml.
2. Press Parse feed.
3. Read the feed title and item count, then each item's URL, title and date. The first 50 items show; press Show all to see the rest.
4. Press Copy All URLs to copy every item link, one per line, or use the copy button beside a single item.

How do I find the RSS feed URL of a website?

Look in the page source for a <link rel="alternate"> tag with a type of application/rss+xml or application/atom+xml. That is feed autodiscovery, and most blogging platforms add it. If there is none, try common paths such as /feed, /rss.xml, /atom.xml or /feed.xml.

Paste the URL that returns XML. If the tool says the URL did not look like an RSS or Atom feed, you have found a web page, not the feed.

What is the difference between RSS and Atom?

RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 both publish a list of recent items as XML, and they name things differently. RSS wraps each item in <item> and dates it with <pubDate>. Atom uses <entry> and dates it with <updated> or <published>.

This parser reads both and lists them the same way. For Atom it uses the <updated> date when there is one, so an edited post shows its edit date.

Is RSS still used?

Yes. Podcasts are distributed as RSS feeds, feed readers still depend on them, and Google accepts an RSS 2.0 or Atom 1.0 feed as a sitemap in Search Console. A sitemap lists every URL; a feed lists what changed recently, which makes it a cheap file for Google to check often.

Feeds also break quietly. One unescaped & in a title makes the whole file invalid XML, and a feed that stopped updating after a CMS change looks, from outside, like a blog that stopped posting. Check the newest date in the list.