NetNewsWire collects items for you from feeds published on web sites. To do this, NetNewsWire needs to know the address for the feed, e.g. `https://inessential.com/feed.xml`.
*It’s okay if you don’t know that.* NetNewsWire will look at any web page and try to find it for you. All you need to give is the site’s URL, like `inessential.com`.
If you’ve got the address already – great! Type it or paste it into the URL box. Otherwise, just enter the website’s address into the box.
Before you finish, you can choose an alternative name for the feed and where it will be stored (see below).
Click ‘Add’ and NetNewsWire will fetch the URL you entered. If you entered an address that’s not a feed, NetNewsWire will search the page and add the feed it finds.
Feeds specify their own name, but you may want to change it to something easier to remember. ‘Brent’ rather than ‘inessential’, for example. You also change this later in the [feed inspector].
This option is especially important if you’re using multiple accounts. You can choose whether to save the subscription to your [On My Mac](on-my-mac.html) account or [Feedbin](syncing-accounts.html) account.
Sometimes NetNewsWire won’t be able to find a feed for a site. Either the site doesn’t offer a feed, or the feed isn’t advertised in a way that NetNewsWire can find it.
You may be able to find a feed manually by visiting the site. There, look for a link to an RSS, Atom or JSON feed. If one exists, you can add this direct URL to NetNewsWire using the process above. Right-click on the link and copy the URL to paste into NetNewsWire.
Adding feeds in the NetNewsWire app isn’t the only way. You can also add feeds from Safari using the [NetNewsWire Safari Extension](safari-extension.html).
