Thursday, April 4, 2013

Feedly and RSS Subscription Extension

If you use the RSS Subscription Extension for Chrome and want Feedly support, here's how. As some may know, this extension adds a feed icon to any page that offers up RSS feeds. This allows you to easily click to subscribe.



When you click on the icon, there is a drop-down list of available news readers. Right now, only a couple are listed, after the announced death of Google Reader. You can, however, add a new one. To do this, you'll simply need the URL that is used to add feeds to the reader. Chrome inserts the RSS feed URL via a variable replacement (%s). If you don't see this list, you may have selected a default reader, and can access the list via the Options for this extension.



The URL you need is:

http://www.feedly.com/home#subscription/feed/%s[action.subscribe


Just paste it in when you click 'Add', and name the reader whatever (e.g. feedly). From that point forward, you have easy access to RSS feeds.

3 comments:

  1. Doesn't seem to work for me when trying to subscribe to Blogger RSS/Atom feeds using the RSS Subscription extension for Chrome.

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    1. You're right. It does work with other sites, I've used it many times at a wide array of places. But, blogger sites do indeed malfunction. I will look into it if I get the impetus and time.

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  2. related feedly bug report: https://getsatisfaction.com/feedly/topics/problem_with_chrome_rss_subscription_extension

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