Guides
Understand RSS. Make it yours.
Basics
What is RSS?
RSS is a way to follow websites without checking them. New posts, episodes, and videos come to you, in one list that stays yours.
How to find the RSS feed for any website
Most sites still have one, hidden or not. Try the common addresses, check the page source, or let a finder run every check for you.
Platforms
How to follow YouTube channels in RSS
Every YouTube channel has a feed. It wants the channel ID, not the handle, and the ID hides in the page source.
How to follow Reddit in RSS
Every subreddit and user page has a feed. Append .rss to almost any Reddit address and read it in your reader.
How to follow social networks in RSS
RSS survives on Bluesky, Mastodon, and Pinterest. Instagram, X, Facebook, and the rest dropped it or never had it.
How to follow Substack in RSS
Every Substack publication has a feed, custom domains included. Add /feed to the address and read it in your reader, no app or account needed.
How to follow newsletters in RSS
Every newsletter can arrive in your reader. Subscribe with an address instead of your email, and an email-to-feed service generates the feed.
How to follow Telegram channels in RSS
Telegram channels have no public RSS. Glanced follows any public channel from its t.me link.
How to follow Google News in RSS
Every Google News search has a feed at news.google.com/rss/search. Add your topic after q= and read it in any reader.
How to follow Google Alerts in RSS
Google Alerts can deliver to a feed instead of your inbox. Create the alert, choose RSS, and read it in any reader.
How to follow Bluesky in RSS
Every Bluesky profile has a feed. Follow any account from your reader, no Bluesky account needed.
How to follow Medium in RSS
Every Medium profile, publication, and tag has a feed. The feed part goes at the front of the address.
How to follow Mastodon in RSS
Every Mastodon account has a feed on its home server. Add .rss to the profile address, no Mastodon account needed.
How to follow Pinterest in RSS
Every Pinterest account quietly serves a feed at feed.rss, and boards get their own.
How to follow GitHub activity in RSS
Releases, commits, tags, and user activity all ship Atom feeds. Append .atom to the address.
How to follow WordPress sites in RSS
Almost every WordPress site has a feed at /feed, and categories, tags, authors, and comments get their own.
How to follow Ghost blogs in RSS
Every Ghost blog has a feed at /rss/, wherever the blog lives.
How to follow Tumblr blogs in RSS
Every Tumblr blog has a feed at /rss, and so does every tag on the blog.
How to follow arXiv in RSS
Every arXiv category has a feed at export.arxiv.org/rss. Add a subject code like cs.AI and follow new papers.
Switching
How to move from Feedly to Glanced
Export your subscriptions from Feedly as an OPML file and import them into Glanced. Collections become folders, names and all.
How to move from Inoreader to Glanced
Export your subscriptions from Inoreader as an OPML file and import them into Glanced, folders and all.
Automation
How to get notified when a site publishes
Get a ping when a site posts. A feed plus a notifier service does it for any site, and Glanced can make the call itself.
How to use MCP with RSS
Connect an AI assistant to your RSS library through MCP. Glanced exposes your feeds, articles, and saves to any MCP client.