RSS and Atom feeds are not always advertised clearly. A site may link one in its page markup, expose another at a common path, publish separate feeds for sections, or leave behind stale endpoints. RSS Crawler brings those discovery routes into one Windows workspace so you can inspect the candidates instead of guessing URLs by hand.
Add one website or a larger source list
Paste website addresses or known feed URLs separated by lines, commas, or spaces. Clean obvious duplicates and unrelated text before a large run so the result set stays easier to review.
Choose Quick, Standard, or Deep scanning
Start with the lightest scan that can answer the question. Quick mode is useful for obvious feeds, Standard covers a normal discovery pass, and Deep explores more possibilities when a site has a complex structure. A deeper scan can take longer and return more endpoints that still need human review.
Review what was actually discovered
Inspect the feed title, RSS or Atom format, latest activity, discovery method, and any problem state. A technically valid endpoint is not automatically useful: it may be stale, duplicated, unrelated to the section you wanted, or too broad for the destination workflow.
- Prefer the site-wide or section feed that matches your real monitoring goal.
- Ignore duplicates rather than exporting every variation.
- Keep problem results visible long enough to understand why they failed.
Preview recent items in the Reader
Open the Reader to confirm that the feed contains the stories, posts, or updates you expected. This catches feeds that validate correctly but publish irrelevant content, empty shells, or the wrong site section.
Separate included, ignored, and problematic results
Use the result states to turn a noisy crawl into a clean source set. Included feeds form the working list, ignored feeds stay out of the Reader and export, and problem results remain available for troubleshooting instead of silently disappearing.
Save reusable packs
When a group of sources belongs together—such as industry publications, local newsrooms, project blogs, or research sites—save it as a pack so you can return to the same source set without rebuilding it.
Export for the next tool
Export the reviewed list as OPML for feed readers, CSV or JSON for analysis and automation, or copied URLs for a quick handoff. The valuable output is not the longest list; it is the smallest set that reliably contains the content you intended to follow.
Discover, inspect, preview, organize, save, and export RSS and Atom feeds from websites on Windows.