How to find the exact xml file path of a RSS feed

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unparadise

How to find the exact xml file path of a RSS feed

in General Discussion • Other • 1 year ago

Hi everyone,

I am learning processing and am working on a RSS reader project. I am following Till Nagel's tutorial over here ( http://tillnagel.com/2009/09/processing-rss-feeds/). Everything works fine. When I try to use the same code on other RSS feed, the first problem I ran into is how to find the exact .xml file path of a RSS feed. For example, the processing website feed link takes me to this link - http://feed.processing.org/. So are most of the RSS feeds of other websites. Can someone who is experienced in this area help?

Thanks,

Frank

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unparadise

Re: How to find the exact xml file path of a RSS feed

1 year ago

I found a way to find out the xml file path for some sites so I would like to share it out with anyone who has the same question. The way to do it is to subscribe to that feed using Google Reader and then go into Google Reader Setting's subscription tab. There some of the RSS feeds are showing the path to the raw .xml file. But a lot others are stilling not shown. (E.G http://feeds2.feedburner.com/ArchDaily). If anyone knows how to figure out the .xml file path for that type, I would really appreciate your help.

Thanks,

Frank

PhiLho

Re: How to find the exact xml file path of a RSS feed

1 year ago

Example with this forum, the bottom RSS link: right-click on the link, you should have a menu item like "Copy this address". You have your link.
Alternative: look at the source code of the HTML page.