Daily Kos RSS feeds

RSS feeds serve several good purposes In our busy and fast-moving online media environment.

Our basic RSS feed link is provided in the site footer, cleverly labeled RSS. If you open that link  https://www.dailykos.com/blogs/main.rss

outside of a feed reader, you'll see strings of text that are very difficult to decipher, but pasting the link into https://rssviewer.app/ (for example) will allow you to preview the feed.

RSS feed readers exist in abundance both as browser extensions or stand-alone apps; many good ones are free or very inexpensive. The platform from which you obtain the feed reader will tell you the system requirements for you to determine if your device will support it. Once you install it, then you can prompt the reader to find Daily Kos. 

Many feed readers will also support "subfeeds," not merely the feed supplying front-page content. We make RSS feeds available for a wide variety of content on Daily Kos, and we now support some URLs recognized as standard by feed readers.

Any Daily Kos URL containing the words

  • category    
  • tag
  • group

can be converted to a form that a feed reader recognizes by adding  /feed  to the end of our URL

Try these examples in a feed reader preview to see how they work:

We have added a plugin to handle the classifications that are not part of WordPress's standard nomenclature, especially important for loading feeds for site members' stories. Adding this text          /rss.xml  to the end of a Daily Kos URL allows a feed reader to reformat it appropriately.

See, for example:

A tip:

  • Visit the profile page for a user or a group, then append /rss.xml  to the profile page URL.

This helps guarantee that you are using the correct form of the username or group name. (Remember, all names including spaces now need to show -  (a hyphen) in lieu of any space.)

Official group names, in particular, are often significantly different from the display name, but more and more users' display names will not match the official username.

Two representative examples:

IMPORTANT: It is worth noting that the site no longer supports the conversion of the entire story (or story list) by the feed reader, only a preview of the content we serve here. In any case, feed readers do not load comments. Both of those curtailed views encourage actual visits to the site.