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@title How to add a feed to NetNewsWire

How to add a feed to NetNewsWire

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.

Its okay if you dont know that. NetNewsWire will look at any web page and try to find it for you. All you need to give is the sites URL, like inessential.com.

To get started, click the Add Feed button on the toolbar, or use File → New Feed (⌘-N) from the menu bar.

If youve got the address already great! Type it or paste it into the URL box. Otherwise, just enter the websites 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 thats not a feed, NetNewsWire will search the page and add the feed it finds.

Choosing an alternative name for a feed

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].

Choosing a feeds folder

Before you add a feed, you can choose the account and folder where it will be saved.

This option is especially important if youre using multiple accounts. You can choose whether to save the subscription to your On My Mac account or Feedbin account.

In either case, if you use folders, you can also choose which one keep the feed in.

What to do when NetNewsWire cant find a feed

Sometimes NetNewsWire wont be able to find a feed for a site. Either the site doesnt offer a feed, or the feed isnt 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.

Other ways to add feeds

Adding feeds in the NetNewsWire app isnt the only way. You can also add feeds from Safari using the NetNewsWire Safari Extension.

If you have an existing OPML subscription list from another app or service, you can import those feeds into NetNewsWire, too.