Feeds the site has but never links to
RSS feeds of news sites that never link to them
Most large news sites still publish RSS, but the page does not say so, and some of them — The Economist, The New York Times, Phoronix, Dark Reading — put a bot check in front of every page a feed reader asks for, so a reader that looks for the feed in the page finds nothing. The feeds themselves answer freely.
MicroRSS knows where these sites keep them. Paste the home page, a section page or an article and it subscribes to the feed for that section: the site's own RSS, with its own titles and dates.
What you get
- The Economist: every section (/europe, /leaders, /business …) and «latest» for everything
- The New York Times: the top stories and forty sections, from an article's link too
- NPR: the news feed and every topic page (technology, science, world …)
- Deutsche Welle per language edition; heise online and its departments (security, developer …); tagesschau.de and Tagesspiegel sections; Folha de S.Paulo sections
- Scientific American, Phoronix, Dark Reading, Le Monde Informatique, Acrimed, OverTake, the Akamai blog, freeCodeCamp News (tags and authors too), Steam community groups
How to add it
- 1 Copy the link
Open the News sites page you want to follow in your browser and copy its address.
- 2 Paste it into Add Feed
MicroRSS recognises the link and offers the feed; nothing else to fill in.
- 3 Read
New entries arrive on the feed's schedule, with the rest of your subscriptions.
Links that work
https://www.economist.com/european Economist sectionhttps://www.nytimes.com/section/technologya New York Times sectionhttps://www.npr.org/sections/science/an NPR topichttps://www.heise.de/security/a heise departmenthttps://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/a tagesschau sectionhttps://www.dw.com/de/a Deutsche Welle editionhttps://www.phoronix.com/a site with one feed
Questions
- Does The Economist have an RSS feed?
- Yes, one per section at /<section>/rss.xml, plus /latest/rss.xml for everything. The pages are behind a bot check for readers, the feeds are not; MicroRSS maps any Economist link to the right one.
- Does The New York Times have RSS feeds?
- Yes, on rss.nytimes.com, one per section. Paste a section page or an article and MicroRSS picks the section's feed.
- Why does MicroRSS say «bot check» for some sites?
- The site answered the reader with a challenge page instead of the article page, so there was nothing to read. The site's feed, if it has one, usually still works — paste its address, or one of the links MicroRSS knows.