You can subscribe to feeds from many locations on the Internet. These include news and information services, blogs, discussion forums, and more. This section describes how to add a subscription. The example in the following procedure shows how to subscribe to the CNN* Top Stories newsfeed, but the process is very similar for most feed providers.
Start Liferea as described in Section 14.1, Starting Liferea.
Obtain the URL for the desired feed.
For example, to obtain the CNN newsfeed URL:
Open your browser and go to http://www.cnn.com.
Scroll down near the bottom of the CNN page, then click .
Locate the URL for the Top Stories feed in the list provided by CNN and copy it.
For this example, the URL is http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss.
In Liferea, click .
Paste the URL into the field.
Click .
Enter a name for the feed and the amount of time you want to pass before the feed is checked for updates, then click OK.
The newsfeed is added to the Feed List. Any headlines are downloaded and added to the Item List.