Fill in your feed details and add items in bulk — one line per item — to generate a valid RSS 2.0 XML feed. No account, no scraping — this builds a feed from items you already know, for a site you already control.
Each line needs three parts separated by a pipe character: the item title, its URL, and a date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Lines that don't match this pattern are skipped, so a typo'd separator won't break the rest of the feed — it just silently drops that one line, which is worth double-checking your item count against your input.
That third field also accepts a full ISO timestamp rather than a bare date — 2026-08-11T14:30:00Z, or with a UTC offset like 2026-08-11T14:30:00+09:00 — and the generated <pubDate> will carry that exact moment instead of midnight. A plain date is fine for a feed people read; a real timestamp matters when an automation platform is watching the feed, because some triggers decide what's new by comparing item times against their last check.
A hand-built static site or a small documentation set often has no build step that generates a feed automatically the way WordPress or most blogging platforms do by default. Without one, there's no way for a feed reader, or another site's "latest posts" widget, to know when you've published something new — visitors have to check back manually. A generated rss.xml fixes that with no server required.
Most "RSS generator" tools online solve a different problem: pointing them at someone else's URL and having them scrape that page to build a feed for a site that doesn't publish one. That's a legitimate use case, but it's not this one. This tool assumes you already know what you want in your feed — you're building it for your own site, from a list you type in yourself, not extracting it automatically from a page. No account, no stored feed URL on our servers, no scraping step. If you specifically want the auto-scrape-a-site behavior, the Site Crawler & Audit tool can generate a feed by crawling your own site's pages directly, which is the closer equivalent for that use case. See this post for a fuller breakdown of manual builders vs. auto-scrapers.
These terms all get used for the same category of tool, but the tools behind them split into two different mechanics, and picking the wrong one wastes time:
URL-to-feed tools (most services that call themselves an RSS feed creator, builder, or maker) take a link to a page you don't control, scrape its content, and turn it into a feed automatically. That's the right choice if you're following a site that has no feed of its own.
List-to-feed tools — this one included — take a plain list of items you already have (your own posts, releases, or updates) and turn it into a spec-valid rss.xml with no scraping and no account. That's the right choice if you're the one publishing the content and just need a standards-compliant feed file for your own static site, changelog, or documentation set.
If you're not sure which you need: do you own the content, or are you following someone else's? Own it → a list-based generator like this one. Following someone else's page → a URL-based scraper is the better fit.
At your site's root, alongside index.html, so it's reachable at yoursite.com/rss.xml. Then add a <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"> tag in your page's <head> so feed readers and browsers can auto-discover it.
Yes, with this tool — it's not connected to your site, so each time you add a new post, paste your full updated item list back in and regenerate. For a handful of posts a month, that's a minor step; for high-frequency publishing, a build-time script is worth setting up instead — or use the Site Crawler tool above to regenerate it from your live pages instead of retyping your list.
If you enter a bare date, this tool sets that item's time to midnight UTC. In a feed reader that's cosmetic — dates can appear to shift by a few hours if your reader renders times in local timezone, but the date itself is still correct. It stops being cosmetic once an automation platform is polling the feed: a trigger that decides what's new by comparing item timestamps against its last check can read a midnight-stamped item published later that day as old news and skip it entirely. Enter a full ISO timestamp in the date field to avoid that, and see using RSS to feed newsletters and automation tools for how Zapier and n8n differ on exactly this point.
For a general audience, RSS usage has declined since its early-2010s peak, but it never went away for developer blogs, documentation sites, and podcasts — feed readers, IDE plugins, and automation tools (like triggering a build when a feed updates) still rely on it directly. It's a low-cost addition with a small but real audience. See this post for specific ways a feed gets used as automation plumbing with Zapier, Make, and newsletter tools.