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July 23, 2008

Export the Feeds from a Google Reader Folder

Most feed readers let you import and export subscriptions using the OPML format. For Google Reader, you'll find this option in Settings > Import/Export.

But what happens when you need to export the feeds from a single folder so you can share them with a friend or upload them to a site? Google Reader lets you export the feeds from a folder:

http://www.google.com/reader/public/subscriptions/user/-/label/FOLDER
(you should replace FOLDER with the actual name of the folder)

Another way to share the subscriptions from a folder is to make it public and to use this link for the OPML file:

http://www.google.com/reader/public/subscriptions/user/USERID/label/FOLDER
(USERID can be obtained from the public page created by Google Reader)

This also works if someone shares with you the page of a public folder and you want to obtain the list of subscriptions from that folder. If I share with you my Googlers folder:

http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/13577231804381328821/label/googlers

you can easily obtain the link to the corresponding OPML file by replacing shared with public/subscriptions:

http://www.google.com/reader/public/subscriptions/user/13577231804381328821/label/googlers

{ Inspired by Abhijeet M. }

9 comments:

  1. Thanks Ionut ! I updated my post too.

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  2. Now if Reader would just allow me to rename folders.

    Tsudohnimh
    KnowtheNetwork.com

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  3. Thanks, but this should be an usual feature.
    Also agree with Tsudohnimh on folder renaming.

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  4. good method to export a certain feed~

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  5. Does google reader support exporting feed or folder to xml file ?

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  6. How do I export a Folder as RSS?
    I am only able to get an export as Atom Feed, but I need an aggregation of all feeds from a folder as RSS...

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  7. Thanks so much for this post. I have tried this a couple times, but it ends up pulling all my feeds, not just the feeds from a specific folder. Any thoughts would be most appreciated.

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  8. i get only list, not contents of all feeds.

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  9. wish Google could automatically identify friends birthdays instead of we asking them and filling it manually..

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