Sample Feeds
This website hosts a large number of Atom, RDF, and RSS sample feeds for use in testing feed parsing software or new aggregators. It provides both sample files from feed specifications as well as real-world examples of valid, semi-valid, and invalid feeds.
The source code for this website is on GitHub, if you want to add new feeds then please follow the instructions in the README.
If some content you own has been added to this site and you’d like it to be removed, please open an issue on GitHub or contact Rowan.
Example Feeds
These feeds are academic examples of various feed formats. They obey the relevant specification and are mostly used to demonstrate how different feed formats work.
If you need to get the list of feeds programmatically, you can do so by requesting this JSON document.
- Apple Example Podcast (RSS XML)
- Atom Spec Example Feed (Atom XML)
- FeedForAll Sample Feed (RSS XML)
- FeedForAll Sample Feed - Favorite RSS Related Software & Resources (RSS XML)
- Microsoft Start Example Atom Feed (Atom XML)
- Microsoft Start Example Audio Feed (RSS XML)
- Microsoft Start Example RSS Feed (RSS XML)
- Microsoft Start Example Slideshow Feed (RSS XML)
- Microsoft Start Example Video Feed (RSS XML)
- Python feedparser Atom 0.3 Example (Atom XML)
- Python feedparser Atom 1.0 Example (Atom XML)
- Python feedparser RDF 1.0 Example (RDF XML)
- Python feedparser RSS 2.0 Example (RSS XML)
- Python feedparser RSS 2.0 with namespaces Example (RSS XML)
- RDF Site Summary Example (RDF XML)
- RDF Site Summary Example With Modules (RDF XML)
- RSS Board 0.91 Sample Feed (RSS XML)
- RSS Board 0.92 Sample Feed (RSS XML)
- RSS Board 2.0 Sample Feed (RSS XML)
- Wikipedia Example Atom Feed (Atom XML)
- Wikipedia Example RSS Feed (RSS XML)
Real World Feeds
These feeds have been scraped from real-world implementations on live websites. They are likely to not rigidly obey the relevant specification.
If you need to get the list of feeds programmatically, you can do so by requesting this JSON document.
- BBC News - World (RSS XML)
- BuzzFeed - Latest (RSS XML)
- Engadget (RSS XML)
- FYI Center for Software Developers (Atom XML)
- GitHub Repo Commits (Atom XML)
- GitHub Repo Releases (Atom XML)
- HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News (RSS XML)
- MacRumors: All Stories (RSS XML)
- Nasa Breaking News (RSS XML)
- Nasa Image of the Day (RSS XML)
- NYT Top Stories (RSS XML)
- Off Menu Podcast (RSS XML)
- Public Mastodon Feed - Bot (RSS XML)
- Public Mastodon Feed - User (RSS XML)
- Rowan Manning's blog (Atom XML)
- Sky News (RSS XML)
- The Financial Times - UK homepage (RSS XML)
- The Guardian (RSS XML)
- The Next Web (RSS XML)
- The Telegraph (RSS XML)
- The Verge - Front Pages (Atom XML)
- Unsplash Blog (RSS XML)
- WordPress News (RSS XML)
- YouTube Channel (Atom XML)