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Feed finder

A feed is an address a site announces in its head — one line of HTML that says: here we nourish. This tool reads those announcements through our server and fetches every announced feed itself: does it come back, and does it come back as a feed? Then it walks five paths the industry considers standard, each separately — a feed that stands without being named in the head is a finding too.

A URL that is itself a feed is parsed on the spot: RSS, Atom or JSON Feed — with the number of entries, the title and the newest date from what the server sends. JSON with a feed shape but without the right content type gets its own finding: the shape is sound, the name is missing.

The tool is meant for sites that publish: blogs, newsletters with a feed, message feeds of governments and companies. The border named honestly: what only JavaScript places into the head does not stand in the HTML and is not seen.

See which feeds a page advertises and which ones really stand: rel=alternate declarations measured on status and content type, five standard paths probed separately, and a URL that is itself a feed parsed on the spot.