# Substack RSS Feed: Find Any Newsletter's URL (2026)

> Every Substack RSS feed lives at /feed. We tested the URLs on 7 October 2026: custom domains, sections, podcasts, and what paid posts look like.

Published by Hushread, 2026-10-07. Canonical: https://hushread.com/blog/substack-rss-feed

*Disclosure: Hushread is our app. We've tried to be fair, and we say where the others are the better choice.*

Yes, Substack has RSS. Add `/feed` to the end of any publication's address, for example `https://noahpinion.substack.com/feed`, and paste that into your reader. It works on custom domains too. The catch is paid posts: the public feed carries only the opening of each one with a "Read more" link, and Substack's help center describes private feeds for podcasts only, not for paid articles.

Below is what we fetched on 7 October 2026 and exactly what came back.

## The Substack RSS feed URL

Substack's own help page is two sentences long: "You can find the RSS feed for your publication at https://your.substack.com/feed" and "Replace 'your' with the name of your Substack publication" ([Substack help](https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038239391-Is-there-an-RSS-feed-for-my-publication)).

![Substack help center article titled Is there an RSS feed for my publication, giving the address your.substack.com/feed](/blog-img/substack-rss-feed/help-article.webp)
*Substack's help article on RSS feeds, 7 October 2026. Source: [support.substack.com](https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038239391-Is-there-an-RSS-feed-for-my-publication)*

So the pattern is:

```
https://NAME.substack.com/feed
```

That page is written for publishers and stops there. It doesn't say what happens with custom domains, how many posts you get, or what a paid post looks like. We tested those.

## What we tested on 7 October 2026

We requested each URL below logged out, with no Substack account. Every one returned an RSS 2.0 feed with HTTP 200.

| What you want | URL we fetched | What came back |
|---|---|---|
| A publication | `https://on.substack.com/feed` | 20 posts, the oldest from 21 May 2026 |
| A publication that moved to its own domain | `https://noahpinion.substack.com/feed` | A 301 redirect to `https://www.noahpinion.blog/feed`, then 20 posts |
| A publication on a custom domain | `https://www.slowboring.com/feed` | 20 posts, 16 of them cut short |
| One section of a publication | `https://www.slowboring.com/feed?sectionId=261691` | 20 posts from the "Evening Edition" section only |
| A publication's podcast | `https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/159185.rss` | 19 episodes with MP3 files attached |

A few things follow from that.

**You get the 20 most recent posts.** All three publication feeds held exactly 20 items. For a publication that posts twice a day, like Slow Boring, that covered 11 days. For Substack's own blog it covered more than four months. A reader that checks every few hours won't miss anything, but the feed is not an archive.

**Free posts arrive in full.** The Noahpinion feed was 1.4 MB for 20 posts, with the complete text, images and footnotes of each free post inside the feed. You can read them in your reader without opening Substack.

**The old substack.com address keeps working.** When a publication moves to its own domain, the `NAME.substack.com/feed` address redirects to the new one. Most readers follow that redirect without you doing anything.

**Profile pages have no feed.** `https://substack.com/@noahpinion/feed` returned a 404. Feeds belong to publications, not to people.

## How to get the feed for any Substack

1. Open the newsletter in a browser and look at the address bar. Ignore everything after the domain.
2. Add `/feed` to the domain: `https://www.slowboring.com/feed`.
3. Paste it into your reader's "add feed" box.

Often you can skip step 2. Substack pages advertise their feed in the page source (the Noahpinion home page carries a `link rel="alternate"` tag pointing to `/feed`), and most readers look for that tag, so pasting the plain newsletter address is usually enough. Feedly's help page gives the same `/feed` pattern and says to paste it into its search bar ([Feedly docs](https://docs.feedly.com/article/645-how-to-find-substack-rss-feeds)). If a site turns out not to be on Substack at all, our guide to [finding the RSS feed of any website](/blog/find-rss-feed-of-any-website) covers the other patterns.

If you already keep your subscriptions in a reader, the [OPML viewer](/tools/opml-viewer) will show you which Substack feeds are in your export.

## What paid posts look like in the feed

This is the part most guides skip, and it decides whether RSS is worth it for a paid newsletter.

Paid posts are in the public feed, with their real titles, subtitles, authors and dates. What is missing is the body. In the Slow Boring feed, 16 of the 20 items stopped early. One we read closely ran for a picture and one paragraph, ended on an ellipsis, and closed with a single "Read more" link back to the post. On the site, the same post shows "Keep reading with a 7-day free trial" where the feed stops. The other four items were complete.

In the Noahpinion feed, 4 of 20 items ended in the same "Read more" link and 16 were complete.

So for a paid newsletter, the feed works as a notification list: you see every headline the moment it publishes, and you click through to read. Whether you see the full post after clicking depends on being signed in to Substack in that browser.

### Is there a private feed for paid subscribers?

For podcasts, yes. Substack says "Each subscriber gets a private Podcast RSS feed that's unique to them", and that the feed includes paid episodes if you pay ([Substack help](https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/360041722272-Will-my-Podcast-RSS-feed-show-paid-only-content)). You find it on the publication's manage subscription page, under "Private podcast feed", by clicking "Set up podcast" and copying the feed URL ([Substack help](https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/4519588148244-How-do-I-listen-to-episodes-on-my-podcast-app)). If you cancel, that feed goes back to the free episodes.

For paid written posts, we could not find one. We searched Substack's help center for "RSS" and for "private RSS feed paid posts", and every result about private feeds was about podcasts. Some third-party pages describe a private feed link for articles in account settings. We don't have a way to check that, Substack's help pages don't mention it, and we are not repeating the steps here.

One thing does carry over: if a writer adds a voiceover to a paid post and switches on "Add voiceover to podcast RSS feed", Substack says the audio goes only to paying subscribers' private podcast feeds ([Substack help](https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/9442047052436-Can-subscribers-listen-to-a-voiceover-on-a-podcast-player)). That is audio in a podcast app, not text in a reader, and it depends on the writer.

### The workaround: turn the emails into a feed

Paid subscribers still get the full post by email. An email-to-feed service can put those emails in your reader.

[Kill the Newsletter](https://kill-the-newsletter.com/) is one by Leandro Facchinetti that asks for no account or payment. It gives you an email address and an Atom feed; you subscribe to the newsletter with that address and the emails appear as feed entries. Treat the feed URL as private: the site itself says not to share it, and anyone with it can read what you paid for. Feedly offers a similar route inside its own product: its Substack help page says that if the RSS feed doesn't work, you can subscribe with your personal email address and set a forwarding rule that sends the newsletters to Feedly ([Feedly docs](https://docs.feedly.com/article/645-how-to-find-substack-rss-feeds)).

Hushread has no newsletter inbox, so it can't do this. In Hushread a paid Substack post shows the same preview everyone else's feed gets.

## Section and podcast feeds

Both of these work today, but neither is on Substack's public help page for readers, so treat them as unofficial. They could change without notice.

**Sections.** Bigger publications split into sections, and you may want only one. Open a post from that section, view the page source, and search for `application/rss+xml`. On a Slow Boring "Evening Edition" post, that tag pointed to `/feed?sectionId=261691`. Fetching it returned 20 posts, all from that section, with the feed titled "Slow Boring : Evening Edition".

**Podcasts.** A publication's `/podcast` page carries a similar tag pointing to an address like `https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/159185.rss`. That is the public podcast feed, with an MP3 attached to each episode. The main `/feed` can carry audio too: in the feed for Substack's own blog, five posts had an MP3 attached, mixed in with the written ones. Substack notes that podcast apps check feeds on their own schedules, so new episodes can take up to 24 hours to show ([Substack help](https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038462911-How-do-I-distribute-my-podcast-to-apps)).

**Notes.** Substack has no feed for Notes that we could find. Open RSS, a third-party service, says it builds one from a profile address, including notes, comments and restacks ([Open RSS](https://openrss.org/feeds/substack)). When we requested one, we got a web page back, not a feed, so test it in your reader before relying on it.

## Reading Substack in an RSS reader

Any reader that accepts a feed URL will take a Substack feed. Our [best RSS reader guide](/blog/best-rss-reader) compares the main ones.

Hushread takes the newsletter's address or its `/feed` link in the add source box and previews the latest posts before you follow ([docs](/docs/add-a-source)). The free plan holds 5 sources, so five newsletters fill it.

A practical note on volume: a feed of full-text essays is heavy, and several daily Substacks add up fast. If you follow newsletters next to news sites, put them in their own folder so the long reads don't get buried.

## FAQ

### Does Substack have RSS?

Yes. Every Substack publication has a public feed at its address plus `/feed`, such as `https://NAME.substack.com/feed`, and Substack's help center confirms the pattern. It returned the 20 most recent posts in our test on 7 October 2026.

### What is the RSS feed for a Substack on a custom domain?

It is the custom domain plus `/feed`, for example `https://www.slowboring.com/feed`. The old `NAME.substack.com/feed` address redirected to the custom domain when we tested it, so either one works.

### Can I get Substack paid posts through RSS?

Not in full from the public feed. Paid posts appear with their title and an opening preview that ends in a "Read more" link. Substack documents private feeds for paid podcast episodes; for written posts, the option that works is an email-to-feed service such as Kill the Newsletter.

### How many posts does a Substack RSS feed show?

Twenty in every publication feed we fetched on 7 October 2026. Older posts are on the publication's site, not in the feed.

### Is there an RSS feed for Substack Notes?

Not from Substack, as far as we could find, and a profile address with `/feed` returned a 404. Open RSS says it offers one, but our request to it did not return a feed.

If the newsletters you read are free, `/feed` is all you need and any reader will do. If most of them are paid, stay with email or the Substack app, or route the emails through Kill the Newsletter or Feedly's email forwarding: RSS alone will only give you headlines.