RSS Feed Finder

Discover RSS Feeds on the web page with the click of a button.

For many people the open-web still revolves around syndicated feeds—whether they track industry news, monitor competitors, or curate content for newsletters. Yet discovering a site’s RSS or Atom feed in 2025 is surprisingly tricky. Face-lifted templates bury it, social widgets hide it, and some publishers omit the link tag entirely. RSS Feed Finder eliminates that friction with a single toolbar click.

1. Instant, standards-compliant feed discovery When you press the orange icon the extension injects a lightweight content script that combs the DOM for the official markers browsers and readers have recognised for two decades—

and its Atom equivalent. Because discovery is performed inside the page, no external requests or APIs are required. Results return in well under a second, so the popup updates before you finish moving your mouse. Benefit: you no longer need to “view source” or guess a feed URL by adding “/feed” to the address—every formally linked feed appears automatically.

2. Heuristic fallback for non-standard sites Plenty of sites forget to add

tags, but still expose a feed under predictable paths such as /feed, /rss, or /atom. RSS Feed Finder unobtrusively fires HEAD requests (same-origin only) to those locations and inspects the Content-Type. If the response is XML or a recognised MIME type it is promoted into the list and clearly labelled as a “Guess.” Benefit: you capture feeds you would otherwise miss, retaining one-click convenience while avoiding blind network scans that might violate CORS or privacy expectations.

3. Clean, practical popup UI The popup opens with a “Scanning…” hint that flips to a tidy vertically spaced list. Each row shows:

a vector-sharp orange RSS logo for visual scanning;

the feed title or URL as a clickable link;

a Copy button that writes the feed URL to your clipboard and flashes “Copied!” for 800 ms. Zero feeds? You see a friendly grey message—no blank white boxes, no developer error text. Benefit: whether you are saving dozens of feeds for later or just grabbing one link for your reader, the UI stays friction-free, readable, and self-explanatory.

4. Badge counters for at-a-glance insight Immediately after discovery the background service-worker sets a numeric badge on the extension icon. Five feeds discovered? You see a solid orange “5.” None? The badge clears. Hovering does not require opening the popup. Benefit: you gain situational awareness of a page’s syndication options while browsing at speed. Many power users open dozens of tabs; the badge lets them quickly return to the richest sources.