Discover Blogrolls

Feedscout can discover OPML blogrolls alongside regular feeds. Blogrolls are collections of feed subscriptions that websites share with visitors.

What Are Blogrolls?

Blogrolls are OPML files containing lists of feeds. They're used to share reading lists, recommendations, or subscriptions. Common locations include:

/.well-known/recommendations.opml
/blogroll.opml
/opml.xml
/subscriptions.opml

Discovering Blogrolls

Use discoverBlogrolls() to find OPML files:

import { discoverBlogrolls } from 'feedscout'

const blogrolls = await discoverBlogrolls('https://example.com')

By default, all discovery methods are used (html, headers, guess). You can customize which methods to use:

const blogrolls = await discoverBlogrolls('https://example.com', {
  methods: ['html', 'headers'],
})

Results include the blogroll URL and title:

{
  url: 'https://example.com/blogroll.opml',
  isValid: true,
  title: 'My Reading List',
}

Discovery Methods

Blogrolls use the same three discovery methods as feeds — see the Feeds section for details on how each method works.

Method	What It Looks For
HTML	<link rel="blogroll"> and anchor tags matching OPML patterns
Headers	Link: </blogroll.opml>; rel="blogroll" headers
Guess	Common paths like /.well-known/recommendations.opml, /blogroll.opml

Configuration

Customize discovery the same way as feeds:

import { urisComprehensive } from 'feedscout/blogrolls'

const blogrolls = await discoverBlogrolls(url, {
  methods: {
    html: {
      anchorLabels: ['blogroll', 'opml', 'subscriptions'],
    },
    guess: {
      uris: urisComprehensive,
    },
  },
})

URI Sets

There are three predefined URI sets:

Minimal

Basic paths following common conventions:

import { urisMinimal } from 'feedscout/blogrolls'

// [
//   '/.well-known/recommendations.opml',
//   '/blogroll.opml',
//   '/opml.xml',
// ]

Balanced (Default)

Includes additional common variations:

import { urisBalanced } from 'feedscout/blogrolls'

// urisMinimal + [
//   '/blogroll.xml',
//   '/subscriptions.opml',
//   '/recommendations.opml',
// ]

Comprehensive

Includes less common patterns:

import { urisComprehensive } from 'feedscout/blogrolls'

// urisBalanced + [
//   '/links.opml',
//   '/feeds.opml',
//   '/subscriptions.xml',
// ]

Default Link Selectors

Blogroll discovery uses these link selectors:

import { linkSelectors, mimeTypes } from 'feedscout/blogrolls'

// [
//   { rel: 'blogroll' },
//   { rel: 'outline', types: mimeTypes },
// ]