News!! Finding The Address For Blog's Rss Feed - Fifty-Fifty If The Possessor Has Hidden It

This article is close how to notice the subscription-address for whatever blog's RSS feed, whether or non the blogger has provided a subscribe button.
 

Blogger blogs in addition to RSS feeds:

Every weblog created inwards Blogger is originally educate to create an RSS feed.

Some blogs don't truly create a feed whatever longer:

• Bloggers tin forcefulness out select to plough their feed off (Settings > Site Feeds > Allow Blog Feeds = None), 
• Blogs that are changed to non public receive got their feed automagically turned off, because it's non possible to apply Blogger's safety rules to command access to a feed.

But provided the weblog is yet producing an RSS feed, it is yet possible to notice the feed address fifty-fifty if the blogger has non provided an icon for it on his/her site.

Finding the RSS-feed address for a Blog

Option 1: Use the Subscribe to Posts (atom) link

Every Blogger template produced yesteryear Google (or at to the lowest degree every i that I've seen) has a Subscribe to Posts (Atom) link at the bottom of the screen.

The easiest means to boot the bucket the blog's (atom) RSS feed address is to right-click on this link in addition to re-create the link-location.

But to a greater extent than or less blog-authors receive got removed the Subscribe to Post link

• accidentally, or 
• because they're inwards the procedure of replacing it amongst a "proper" chicklet
• because they don't desire people to read their feed - maybe because they've realised that for each Post, the feed contains the start version of it that they publish, non whatever updates that they've made since - in addition to don't know close the proper choice to disable it.

and inwards these cases yous take to role to a greater extent than or less other option.

Option 2: Use the RSS icon or feedcounter icon that the blogger has provided

If the blogger has added either an RSS icon, or Feedburner's feedcount gadget, therefore yous tin forcefulness out right-click on them in addition to re-create the link-location.   Or simply click on them, in addition to most likely the feed volition travel opened inwards your favourite feed-reader software.

Option 3: Work it out from the blog's source-code

Even if the blog-owner hasn't given yous whatever means to subscribe to their feed, yous tin forcefulness out yet operate out the feed-address yesteryear looking at the instructions that are used to exhibit the weblog inwards your web-browser:

1  View the blog inwards your browser.

2  Choose to view the page-source.   The command to arrive at this is unlike inwards each browser:  inwards Firefox it's  View > Page Source.

This opens a text-file which shows the code that was used to depict the web-page yous were looking at.

3  Search for "RSS" inwards the text file.  
Hint:  role the browser's seach command (Edit > Find inwards Firefox).

4  Examine the code:  If at that topographic point is a feed coming shape the blog, yous volition meet the URL's of the feed inwards atom in addition to RSS format, similar this:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml"         title=" - Atom"            href=" /feeds/posts/default" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"          title=" - RSS"            href=" /feeds/posts/default?alt=rss" /> <link rel="service.post" type="application/atom+xml"          title=" - Atom"            href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5681944372768269659/posts/default" />

The URLs are the text within the quote-marks afterwards each of the "href=" statements - shown inwards the instance every bit links.

Note:  I've position inwards line-breaks therefore yous tin forcefulness out read this code, but inwards the source file at that topographic point volition exclusively travel 3 - long - lines used.

5  Choose which one yous desire to use.    (Atom or RSS - I intend RSS is to a greater extent than universally accepted, but Atom volition travel fine for whatever Google situations.)

You tin forcefulness out copy-and-paste i of these, in addition to role it to subscribe to the blog.   Which i to use, in addition to how/where to role it depends on where yous desire to position the subscription.

For example, I've simply done this to subscribe to a weblog inwards Google reader:

• I chose the URL which is equivalent to the i that's highlighted inwards the instance above
• In Google-Reader, I select Add a subscription, in addition to pasted inwards the URL

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