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How to Use Feedbro
Shirley
March 3, 2024
9:32 pm
Screen shot of the image you see when you open up the Feedbro Reader extension for Firefox. It's against a black background, and has a digital graphic of a computer with an rss feed symbol on the computer's screen. Below it are icons with links such as adding a new folder, adding a new feed, importing feed subscriptions, settings, and a help section.

When RSS feed readers were in their heyday, I never did get on the train nor did I understand why people loved them so much. But after the destruction of Twitter, I decided to try out having an RSS feed reader to better curate how I use the internet.

And I'm officially a believer! I love using/utilising a RSS feed reader because now I don't have to obsessively check each and every single blog or youtuber constantly in case there may have been an update; Feedbro automatically notifies me when there's something new!
Bonus: I don't have to deal with a meddling "middle-man" and their silly algorithm getting in-between me and the content I want to see.

I've seen people talk on social media about wanting to go back to reading blogs and using RSS feeds, so I thought I'd put together this little tutorial to help someone get started.

This tutorial is specifically for the Feedbro RSS feed reader extension on FireFox, and how to add new feeds. They do have an extension on Chrome as well, and I assume it operates the same exact way.

Blogs that Use WordPress

For blogs that use WordPress, in the Feed URL box add /feed at the end of the blog's URL:
Note: I believe this method also works for any blog or website that has a built-in RSS feed.

Screen shot of how to create a feed using a wordpress blog's website. The feed URL box has been highlighted with a red rectangle showing the viewer what the end of the URL should look like.

Blogspot Blogs

For blogs on Blogspot, in the Feed URL box add /rss.xml at the end of the blog's URL:

Screen shot of how to create a feed using a blogspot website. The feed URL box has been highlighted with a red rectangle showing the viewer what the end of the URL should look like.

Shopify Blogs

For blogs that use Shopify's blog service, in the Feed URL box add .atom at the end of the blog's URL:

Screen shot of how to create a feed using a shopify blog website. The feed URL box has been highlighted with a red rectangle showing the viewer what the end of the URL should look like.

Youtube Channels

To add a Youtube channel to Feed Reader, first go to the Youtube channel's home page, right click, and select 'View Page Source':

Screen shot of Charles aka Moist Critikal's youtube home page. I've right-clicked on the page which brings up a menu and the red rectangle box is shown to highlight the "View Page Source" one needs to click on.

It will then bring up a page that looks like The Matrix:

Screen shot of the page source of a youtube page. It look crazy as hell, coding mumbo-jumbo that I don't understand with my basic CSS/HTML background.

Ctrl+F "rss" (⌘+F for mac) and it will automatically bring you to the section where the RSS URL is located:

A red rectangle box has been used to highlight the ctrl+F "rss" search, along with the highlighted "RSS" that is shown in search of the RSS feed URL link amidst all of the other jumble of coding in the page source necessary to create the RSS feed.

Take the URL that is found in the href attribute:

The URL needed to create the RSS feed has been highlighted with a red rectangle.

And then copy+paste it into the Feed URL box on Feed Reader:

Screen shot of how to create a feed using a youtube site. The feed URL box has been highlighted with a red rectangle showing the viewer what the end of the URL should look like.

And there you go! I don't really mess with anything else other than giving a custom name if I want to, and adding it to a custom folder if necessary to keep things better organised.
Happy reading! 🙂

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