Export & Integration
Your personalized Scour feed is available as a standard RSS feed. Copy the URL below and paste it into your favorite feed reader.
Your personal feed URL
When you're signed in, the copy box below shows your personal feed URL: your username is baked in, so Scour can see which articles you click and use that to shape your feed and suggest new topics. The plain URL (/@{username}/rss.xml) works too, but clicks through it are anonymous, so your feed won't learn. Sign in and paste the personal URL into your reader to keep that learning.
See Reactions & History for more on how Scour learns from your interactions, and How Ranking Works for the underlying algorithm.
https://scour.ing/@username/rss.xmlScour also supports Atom (/atom.xml) and JSON Feed (/feed.json) formats. Swap the extension in any feed URL.
Customize Your Feed
You can customize your Scour feed with the following query parameters:
| Parameter | Values | Description |
|---|---|---|
t | 1h, 1d, 1w, 1m | Time frame: past hour, day, week, or month |
all_feeds | true / false | Search all sources or only your subscriptions |
show_seen | true / false | Include posts you've already seen |
For example, /@username/rss.xml?t=1d&all_feeds=true will give you today's posts from all sources.
Interactive Elements
Your feed includes reaction links (Love, Like, Not for me) in each post, so you can rate content directly from your RSS reader.
Scour also includes interest and feed recommendations to help you tune your feed.
Feeds Everywhere
Beyond your main feed, Scour offers these other types of feeds:
| Feed | URL Pattern |
|---|---|
| Per-interest feed | /@username/interests/{interest}/rss.xml |
| Your likes | /@username/likes/rss.xml |
| Another user's feed | /@otherperson/rss.xml |
| Another user's likes | /@otherperson/likes/rss.xml |
| Popular posts | /posts/popular/rss.xml |
| Most covered | /posts/discussed/rss.xml |
| Scour changelog | /changelog/rss.xml |
You can browse other users' pages to find other users whose feeds or likes you might want to subscribe to.
OPML Import & Export
OPML is the standard format for transferring feed subscriptions between RSS readers. Scour supports both importing and exporting OPML files.
Import Feeds
Import your existing subscriptions by uploading an OPML file. Most readers (Feedly, Inoreader, NetNewsWire, etc.) can export one.
When you upload an OPML file, Scour also analyzes your feed subscriptions to suggest interests you might want to add. That way you can get both feeds and interests set up at once.
Export Your Interest Feeds
You can export all your interest-specific feeds as an OPML file. Each interest imports as a separate feed, so you can organize by topic.
Export Your Feed Subscriptions
Download all the feeds you're subscribed to as an OPML file, which you can then import into any other RSS reader.
You can also find these options on your Feeds and Interests pages.
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