Scour for RSS Users

Scour is built on RSS/Atom feeds, but it works differently from other feed readers. Scour filters noisy feeds to find the best content related to your interests. You can use it alongside or in lieu of another RSS reader.

Why I Built This

Before building Scour, I could never get into RSS. I liked the idea of curating my own feed and tried tried multiple times to set up a feed reader, add feeds, and keep up with their content.

Inevitably, I'd get too excited adding feeds. I'd end up feeling as if I were swamped with thousands of unread emails and I'd abadon the reader.

Now, I'm subscribed to 2650 feeds and discovering more all the time.

What Scour Does Differently

Most RSS readers show everything in reverse chronological order. Scour works differently.

Interests filter everything — Tell Scour what topics you care about. It surfaces relevant content from your subscriptions or 16499 community-contributed sources.
Feed discovery — Scour helps you find new great sources to subscribe to with personalized recommendations and by letting you see all the feeds where a given piece of content was found.
Collect freely — Add feeds without worrying about being overwhelmed. Interests filter what surfaces.
No duplicates — Same article in multiple feeds? You see it once.
Discussion links — See when articles are discussed on Hacker News, Reddit, Lobsters or Bluesky.

See Feeds for more on recommendations, discovery, and deduplication. You can also read about How Ranking Works for the technical details.

Three Ways to Use Scour

1. Add Your Scour Feed to Your Reader

Your personalized Scour feed is available as RSS. Add it to your existing reader for filtered, interest-matched content. The more specific your interests, the better the filtering.

Your feed URL: https://scour.ing/@username/rss.xml

See Export & Integration for all available feed URLs.

2. Use Scour as a Noise Filter

High-volume sources like Hacker News, arXiv, and Reddit are already in Scour. You can filter their content to find hidden gems related to your interests. . For source-specific guides, see: Hacker News, arXiv, Reddit.

3. Import Your Feeds to Scour

Import existing subscriptions via OPML and use Scour as your primary reader. You can toggle between searching only your feeds or searching all 16499 community sources.

See Feeds for details on subscriptions and modes.

Websites Without RSS

Some sites don't have RSS feeds. Scour can often extract posts anyway by detecting page structure. See Feeds for details.