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Import Subscriptions Using OPML

To import a list of feeds (url), you can choose to either provide a URL to your OPML file
OPML url:

Or, upload an OPML file
OPML file:

But.. what is an OPML file?

OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) is an XML format for outlines. These days, its popular to use OPML to represent subscriptions. RSS:Forward understands subscriptions in this OPML format, and is able to import and export your subscriptions in OPML. This ensures that you are never locked-in to RSS:Forward, and is free to migrate your subscription elsewhere. For more information on OPML, please refer to the Wikipedia.

Below, is an example of what an OPML file looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<opml version="1.0">
  <head>
    <title>Subscriptions</title>
    <dateCreated>Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:45:47 +0800</dateCreated>
  </head>
  <body>
    <outline
      text="wannabe"
      xmlUrl="http://blog.yanime.org/xml/rss/feed.xml" />
  </body>
</opml>

RSS:Forward is only interested in the bold portions indicated above. Other details are ignored.