Read RSS files in your browser
The feed behind blogs, news sites and every podcast. Open an RSS file right here as a reader, newest first. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your feed opens as a reader, its items newest first beside the one you pick.
- Newest first • Each item in full
- Filter • Sort by date or title
- What would trip a feed reader, marked
- Export • Save the list as CSV
About RSS
Netscape made RSS in 1999 for its portal, and Dave Winer's RSS 2.0 of 2002 is the one most sites write. A feed is an XML file that lists a site's latest posts, each an item with a title, a link, a date and its text, for feed readers to check for what's new.
Podcasts are RSS feeds too: each episode is an item with its audio file as an enclosure, and Apple's iTunes tags add seasons, episode numbers and lengths. A feed with missing dates, items without ids or enclosures without lengths still opens in a browser, but trips up readers and podcast apps.
Filepeek lists the items newest first beside the one you pick, its text drawn with no script running and no picture loaded from the web. Episodes show their season, number and length, links open in a new tab, and what a reader would trip on is marked on its item. Tree and Text show the XML.
Really Simple Syndication
.rss
Format
- MIME type
- application/rss+xml
- Made by
- Netscape, then Dave Winer
- Released
- 1999
Inside the file
- Items
- Title, link, date and text
- Podcasts
- Enclosures, seasons and episodes
- Markup
- XML
- Written by
- Blogs, news sites and podcast hosts
Opens in every browser
Browsers show a feed as its XML or download it. Filepeek opens it as a reader in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, with no feed reader to install.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Questions
How do I read an RSS file?
Drop it on this page or choose Peek an RSS. Its items open newest first, and each one opens in full when you pick it.
Can I check a podcast feed?
Yes. Each episode shows its season, number and length, and episodes missing a date, an id or a length are marked, the things podcast apps stumble on.
Do pictures in the items load?
No. Pictures from the web are held back, so opening the feed tells no server anything. Links open in a new tab when you click them.
Can I save the list of items?
Yes. Choose Export, then Save the list as CSV, with each item's title, date, author and link.
Is my file uploaded?
No. The file opens inside your browser and never leaves your device.