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@title How to add a feed to NetNewsWire
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# How to add a feed to NetNewsWire
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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`.
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*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`.
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To get started, click the Add Feed button on the toolbar, or use **File → New Feed** (⌘-N) from the menu bar.
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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.
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Before you finish, you can choose an alternative name for the feed and where it will be stored (see below).
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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.
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Choosing an alternative name for a feed
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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].
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Choosing a feed’s folder
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Before you add a feed, you can choose the account and folder where it will be saved.
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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.
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In either case, if you use folders, you can also choose which one keep the feed in.
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What to do when NetNewsWire can’t find a feed
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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.
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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.
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Other ways to add feeds
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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).
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If you have an existing OPML subscription list from another app or service, you can [import those feeds into NetNewsWire](import-opml.html), too. |