RSS for the rest of the internet.

RSS is the best way to follow the web. One reader, all your sources, no algorithm deciding what you see. The problem is that most websites don't offer RSS feeds anymore. Your favorite blog, that company's news page, the forum you check every morning — no feed, no way to subscribe.

RSS Anyway fixes this. We detect and generate RSS feeds for websites that don't have them. If a site publishes content on a page somewhere, we can probably turn it into a feed you can subscribe to in any reader.

How it works

We run a classifier that looks at any URL and figures out how to get a feed from it. Some sites have RSS but hide it. Some use Atom, JSON Feed, or sitemaps. Some have nothing at all — just HTML pages with links. Our classifier handles all of these. It walks the site, finds the content, and produces a feed you can subscribe to.

Right now we seed discovery from Hacker News. Every story that gets traction on HN, we classify the source site and add it to our index. Over time, this builds a wide catalog of feeds across the web — blogs, company pages, forums, research sites, and more.

What you can do

• Browse the hot and new pages to discover content.
• Subscribe to any feed in your RSS reader. Every feed page has RSS, Atom, and JSON Feed links.
• Browse by domain — click any domain name to see all the feeds we've found for that site.

Open and transparent

Everything about RSS Anyway is public. The feeds are free. The system status page shows exactly what our workers are doing in real time — which feeds are being polled, how often, and whether there are any errors. No black boxes.

Why

The open web is better when you can follow it on your own terms. RSS was the original "subscribe" button — no account required, no notification spam, no feed algorithm. It just works. We think every website should have a feed, and if they won't make one, we will.

RSS Anyway is an Astrohacker project, built in Austin, Texas.