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Saturday, August 26, 2006

How to get the feed url for New Blogger

In old Classic Blogger, to get the feed URL, you click the SETTINGS tab, then FEED and you will find the feed URL there. Now in Blogger Beta, you can't do that because the feed URL is not displayed there. So how do we get the feed URL.

In the menu bar, click View, then Page Source, and the source code for the blog will open in another window. Somewhere in between the <head> and </head> tags you will see the feed URLs. I clicked VIEW > PAGE SOURCE and part of what I got from the page source I put in the scroll box below. The URL's of the feed is highlighted in red:

<title>Blogger Tips and Tricks: Blogger Beta: How to get the feed url</title>

<meta content='text/html; charset=UTF-8' http-equiv='Content-Type'/>
<meta content='true' name='MSSmartTagsPreventParsing'/>
<meta content='blogger' name='generator'/>
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Blogger Tips and Tricks - Atom" href="http://blogger-tricks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Blogger Tips and Tricks - RSS" href="http://blogger-tricks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss" />
<link rel="service.post" type="application/atom+xml" title="Blogger Tips and Tricks - Atom" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26880688/posts/default" />
<link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="http://www.blogger.com/rsd.g?blogID=26880688" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Blogger Tips and Tricks - Atom" href="http://blogger-tricks.blogspot.com/feeds/115664212057653121/comments/default" />


You will have to scroll down to see the other feed URL. The last one is the feed for comments.

You can also get the Atom feed URL by scrolling to the bottom of the page, hover your mouse cursor over "Posts: Atom" and the URL will appear at the bottom left of the taskbar (see screenshot below):




I have been using
http://blogger-tricks.blogspot.com/rss.xml
for this site and it seem to be working. I have also done some tests and reported the results at Testing feed URLs for Blogger blogs

Acknowledgement: I was alerted to this by This tip was provided by Chuck of The Real Blogger Status.

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