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The RSS & Atom Reader is a new app that lets you subscribe to and read web feeds without installing anything. Paste a feed URL, and the app fetches, parses, and displays the entries right in your browser.
Supported Formats
The reader handles the main feed formats in active use today:
- RSS 2.0 - The most common syndication format.
- Atom 1.0 - Used widely by blogs and news sites.
- JSON Feed 1.x - A modern, JSON-based alternative to XML feeds.
- RDF/RSS 1.0 - An older format still found on some long-running sites.
When a feed is loaded, a badge in the preview panel identifies which format it uses.
Try It Without Any Network Calls
Three sample feeds are bundled directly into the app: a sample RSS feed, a sample Atom feed, and a sample JSON Feed. These load instantly and let you explore the interface before subscribing to any external source.
Subscriptions That Persist
Subscriptions are saved in your browser's localStorage, so they are still there after you close the tab and come back. You can reload any feed individually to fetch the latest entries, and remove subscriptions you no longer want.
What the Feed Preview Shows
Each feed you subscribe to gets a preview panel with its title, format badge, description, feed URL, website link, last updated date, and entry count. Entries list their title, date, summary, and a link to the original article.
Entry content is rendered as plain text only. No HTML from feed entries reaches the page, which keeps things safe regardless of what a feed contains.
Cross-Origin Feeds
Browsers block direct requests to many feed URLs due to CORS restrictions. The app tries a direct fetch first, and if that is blocked, it falls back to a public HTTPS CORS proxy automatically. No configuration needed.