When a site has no RSS feed, paste its address into Add feed and choose Create a custom RSS feed for this website. You click the part of the page to watch, and each new item on it becomes a post. Feeder may also offer an AI feed of the page, marked AI powered.
How do I create a custom feed?
Custom feeds need Plus ($7.99 a month billed yearly) or Professional ($14.99 per user a month billed yearly). On Free you can try the picker, but Save feed is locked.
- Select Add feed. Paste the address of the page that lists the items you want, such as a news or events page, and press Enter.
- Below the results, choose Create a custom RSS feed for this website.
- The page opens. Click one item in the list, such as a headline. Feeder finds the items like it and shows them under Preview. If the preview looks wrong, click something else.
- Select Save feed. Feeder follows the new feed.
To change what the feed watches later, right-click it, choose Edit feed, open Sources, select the source and then Edit source.
What are AI feeds?
When you paste a page's address into Add feed, Feeder can read the page with AI and offer a feed of it. These results carry an AI powered tag (AI feed in the apps). Select Follow to add one. You can follow 3 AI feeds on Free, 30 on Plus and 200 on Professional.
The limit applies to accounts created after October 7, 2025. On older accounts, AI feeds count toward the normal feed limit instead. At the limit, Feeder says You've reached your AI feed limit for this plan. Remove an AI feed you no longer need, or upgrade. If the site has its own feed, follow that one: it's more reliable and doesn't use an AI feed. To hide AI feeds, open Settings, AI and turn off AI feeds.
Which pages don't work?
- Pages built with JavaScript. The picker shows the page without running its scripts, so it can come up blank, or say Could not load with the address. If Feeder offers an AI powered result, try that: AI feeds load the page in a full browser.
- Pages behind a login or paywall. Feeder loads pages from its own servers, without your login, so it sees only what a logged-out visitor sees.
- Sites that block Feeder. Some bot protection turns Feeder away. See What to do if Feeder's crawlers are blocked by Cloudflare.
- Pages without a repeating list. The picker needs items that repeat, like headlines, links or event cards.
Why do old posts come back as new?
Pages don't carry dates the way feeds do. Feeder dates each item when it first sees it and recognizes it by its link. So an old item can show up again as new when:
- It left the page and came back, for example on a "most read" list or a calendar that reshuffles. A custom feed posts it again while Alert when old entries come back is on, which it is by default. Untick it in the picker, under Custom CSS selectors.
- The site changes its links, for example with a code that differs on every visit. In the picker, set Filter duplicate posts to When they have the same title.
AI feeds don't have these settings. If an AI feed keeps bringing back old posts, follow the site's own feed if it has one, or make a custom feed instead.
Common questions
How do I get notified when a page changes?
Create a custom feed for the page. Then right-click the feed, choose Edit feed and turn on the alerts you want under Notifications. Each new item on the page then notifies you.
Why did my custom feed stop working?
The site probably changed its layout. The feed turns red with an error such as "The elements we are monitoring couldn't be found on the page". Select Edit source, as described above, and click the items again. See Why a feed stops updating or turns red.
Still stuck? E-mail support@feeder.co with the address of the page you want to follow, and we'll help.