What are Web feeds?

A Web feed is a feed Inoreader builds from a web page that has no RSS feed. You paste the page's address, pick the list of links you want to follow, and every new link in that list arrives as an article, like in any other feed.

Pick the list to follow

Open the builder from Add feed in the tab bar and choose Web feed. After you paste an address and click Load website, the AI tab suggests the lists it found on the page as cards (Feed 1, Feed 2 and so on), each showing its first links. If none of them fits, switch to Manual and click any link on the page to see the lists that match it. A Web feed always follows links, so the builder accepts only a selection whose items are links. The steps are in how to create a Web feed.

Read it like any other feed

Once followed, the Web feed opens in the reading panel and sits in your sidebar with your other feeds. Inoreader checks the page on the same schedule as other feeds, at least every hour on Pro for a feed that got an article in the last 30 days. You can put it in a folder, and a right-click offers Create rule and Feed properties, where its type reads "Web feed". See what you can use Web feeds for.

Websites can change their structure at any time, which can stop a Web feed or leave its articles incomplete. The first time you follow one, Inoreader asks you to accept this before Follow feed.

Web feeds and Track changes

A Web feed follows a list of new entries. To watch one area of a page that changes in place, such as a price, use a Track changes feed instead. See whether to use Web feeds or Track changes. Before building either, check whether the site has a feed after all with Add feed > Website. See why Inoreader can't find a feed for a website.

Plans and limits

Web feeds are a Pro feature: Pro includes 20 Web feeds and Track changes feeds together, a Team with a shared pool shares 150 or 200 across the team, and more are available as an add-on. The feature page Follow any website, even without a feed describes them, and the post Improved Web feeds & Track changes shows the current builder.