RSS for Blogger: Find Your Feed and Check a Subscription

Reviewed October 9, 2026. This guide explains the format and offers a manual checking routine; no particular reader app has been tested or endorsed.

If you keep opening the same blogs to see whether anything has changed, a feed reader can give those subscriptions a home. Start with one site you already enjoy rather than importing hundreds of feeds. The useful result is a reading list you will actually return to.

Find the Blogger feed address

Blogger’s official feed guide lists this address pattern for the RSS 2.0 posts feed:

https://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Replace blogname with the blog’s subdomain. Blogger also supports Atom feeds. Private blogs do not provide site feeds; public-blog feed settings can affect what is shared. Check the official guide if an address does not work rather than assuming the blog has stopped publishing.

Try one subscription before building a large list

1. Copy the feed address into the add-subscription field of your chosen reader.
2. Confirm the publication’s name and open one item’s link. It should lead to the article you expected.
3. Compare the displayed title with the original article. Note whether the reader offers a summary or the full text.
4. Put it in a folder you can describe plainly, such as “Weekend reading,” rather than an elaborate category system.
5. Return after the publisher releases another article. Check whether it appears before assuming the subscription is working reliably.

This is a suggested checking routine, not a report of an app test. If the reader reports an error, record its exact wording and the feed address. Avoid repeatedly deleting and re-adding every subscription: first establish whether the problem concerns one feed or your whole list.

What the feed contains

In RSS 2.0, a channel describes the publication and item elements describe entries. A guid can identify an item. The RSS Advisory Board specification explains the elements and their requirements. Here is an invented teaching example, not Advice Me’s live feed:

<rss version="2.0">
  <channel>
    <title>Example Reading Notes</title>
    <link>https://example.com/</link>
    <description>Notes about books and learning.</description>
    <item>
      <title>My first reading note</title>
      <link>https://example.com/reading-note</link>
      <description>A short summary of the note.</description>
      <guid>https://example.com/reading-note</guid>
    </item>
  </channel>
</rss>

The example separates the publication’s title from the article’s title. Readers use structured feed information to present entries; the XML is not a page layout to paste into a Blogger post and expect a subscription service to appear.

Keep a small troubleshooting note

Observation	What to record before changing anything
Reader rejects the address	Exact URL, error text and time of check
Unexpected publication appears	Feed name and the destination of one article link
Newest article seems absent	Article title, publication date and when you last refreshed
Only a summary appears	Whether its link opens the complete article successfully

A short note makes a later support request more useful than “RSS is broken.” Do not include passwords or private account information.

A reading-list review you can repeat

Feed name and address:
Why I want to read it:
One article link checked:
Last new item observed:
Any error, copied exactly:
Keep, pause or remove this subscription:

After a week, remove subscriptions you consistently skip. For publishers, use the same idea in reverse: give each article a descriptive title and a summary that helps someone decide whether to open it. Our article planning worksheet can help clarify that promise.

Prepared with AI assistance and editorial review. The XML and worksheets are original illustrative examples; no reader-app performance claims are made. See our editorial policy.