Get RSS Feed URL Chrome Extension Analysis
Web Scraping & Data ExtractionChrome extension ID: kfghpdldaipanmkhfpdcjglncmilendn
A browser utility designed to automatically detect and display available RSS/Atom feed URLs on visited web pages. It allows users to copy individual feed links or all detected links via a popup menu or keyboard shortcut.
Overview
Installs
40K+
Rating
★ 3.8
49 reviews
Languages
1 locales
Includes English
Market analysis
Review-backed positioning, friction, and market signals for this Chrome extension.
Macro category
Web Scraping & Data Extraction
Pricing friction
Low review signal
Complaint intensity
High review signal
Listing positioning
The extension positions itself as a utility to quickly identify and copy RSS or Atom feed links that are not easily visible on a website. It highlights specialized support for major platforms like YouTube, Reddit, GitHub, and GitLab to simplify the discovery process.
Inferred product pattern
A specialized utility for RSS discovery that faces critical reliability and privacy-related user distrust.
Review-backed pain points
Users report significant reliability issues where the tool fails to find visible feeds, errors such as 'Failed to fetch', and instances where the extension interferes with website login sessions.
Observed feature gaps
The tool lacks a visual status indicator (such as a highlighted icon) to notify users when a feed is present on a page, requiring manual interaction to check.
- Content Curators
- News Aggregators
- Developers
- RSS Feed Enthusiasts
- Finding hidden RSS feeds on websites
- Extracting YouTube channel or Reddit subreddit feeds
- Automating content discovery without inspecting source code
- Effective for finding feeds when working as intended
- Saves time compared to manual source code inspection
- Failure to detect existing feeds
- Interference with website login forms
- Alleged suspicious redirects
- Performance complaints detected
- Privacy complaints detected
- No pricing friction observed as the extension is presented as a free utility.
Support
No specific complaints regarding customer support response, though users are directed to GitHub for bugs.
Reliability
Multiple reports of the extension failing to detect RSS feeds even when they are clearly present on the page, alongside 'Failed to fetch' errors.
Privacy
Significant user concern regarding privacy, with one reviewer claiming the extension redirected Google search results through a third-party URL, suggesting spyware-like behavior.
- Free usage observed
- No account requirement observed
- Free plan or free usage claimed
Store listing facts
- Screenshots: 1
- Videos: 0
- Languages: 1
- Privacy policy
- Developer contact
- Official website
- Support link
- Version: 3.3.1
- Size: 227KiB
- Last updated:
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Links
Website: github.com
Privacy policy: https://github.com/shevabam/get-rss-feed-url-extension?tab=readme-ov-file
Support links: https://github.com/shevabam/get-rss-feed-url-extension/issues