RSS Feeds

Mastodon RSS feeds

Although an RSS feed can already be obtained for Mastodon instances, Open RSS offers alternative RSS feeds for Mastodon with some added improvements.

  • Supports All, Local, and Federated timelines including hashtags
  • All links are localized to a single instance
  • Replies and boosts can be filtered out
  • Includes replied-to posts in context
  • Doesn't require creating an account or logging in

User profile feed

Get an RSS feed of the posts and comments of a user on any supported Mastodon instance.

  1. Navigate to any user's page on a Mastodon instance.
  2. While on the page, add openrss.org/ at the beginning of the URL of the page in your browser bar.
  3. Navigate to the updated URL to generate the Open RSS feed.
  4. Add the RSS feed to your RSS reader.

For example, the RSS feed for @Mastodon is at the URL shown below.

https://openrss.org/mastodon.social/@Mastodon

Timeline feed

RSS feeds for home, local, and federated timelines on an instance are supported. For example, here are the RSS feeds for the mastodon.social instance.

Hashtag feed

Get an RSS feed for posts that contain a specific hashtag.

  1. Navigate to any Mastodon instance (e.g. mastodon.art).
  2. Click on a hashtag in any post to go to a hashtag result page (e.g. mastodon.art/tags/photography).
  3. While on the page, add openrss.org/ at the beginning of the URL of the page in your browser bar.
  4. Navigate to the updated URL to generate the Open RSS feed.
  5. Add the RSS feed to your RSS reader.

Contextual replies

After subscribing to a user's Mastodon RSS feed, instead of just seeing only that user's post, you'll also see the post they've replied to. For example, if you were to subscribe to the RSS feed for @alice's timeline, you'd see the post @alice has replied to first, then her reply below that, as shown below.

@alice's reply to a post on @alice's RSS feed

Boost filtering

Following a user with RSS feeds keeps you updated with their posts, but knowing when the user has boosted another post is helpful as well. So each boosted post appears in the feed as a separate item. They're also prefixed with "Boosted:" to easily filter them out if needed.

Supported instances

There are many different Mastodon instances. We've supported RSS feeds for the instances we know about. You can verify if an RSS feed is available for an instance by typing its domain name in the search bar on the home page. If there's an RSS feed you'd like for an instance that we don't yet support, let us know, and we'll get it added.

Privacy limitations

Using Mastodon RSS feeds allows you to keep up with the content from any user on an instance without actually following the user or even logging in, so you can still browse Mastodon while sustaining your level of privacy. But this privacy respect goes both ways. So if a Mastodon user makes their posts private, we respect their wishes and don't include that content in the RSS feeds.


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