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What is KITE?

KITE is an application that reads RSS, Atom or JSON feeds and displays their content.

Okay, but what's a feed?

A feed is a special file that a website automatically generates to share what's new (such as blog posts, podcasts or news). This file contains the latest news published, but in a format that can be easily read by computer applications for extraction and display.

Feeds come in three formats: RSS, Atom or JSON, but that's a technical detail.

What's a feed for?

Imagine you like to read several blogs or follow several sites, Youtube channels, Podcasts ... to keep yourself informed, to keep an eye on things or simply to entertain yourself. You need to remember the addresses of each site and go to each of their pages to see what's been newly published.

A feed can be accessed in the same way as a web page, i.e. using a web address that is made available on most content sites.

With a feed reader like KITE, you can subscribe to the feeds of all the sites you're interested in, and view all the new publications from all these sites in one place.

To tidy things up, KITE lets you organize your feeds by theme. For example, you can create your “News” feed list and add one or more feeds from your favorite news sites. You can also create several feed categories to help you find your way around.

To subscribe to a feed in KITE, simply retrieve the feed address from the site you're interested in and save it in the KITE graphical interface.

How do I find the feed address of a website?

It's not always easy to find the address of a website's feed, because depending on who developed it, it's more or less highlighted. Note also that some websites may have chosen not to provide feeds at all. To find website feeds, I've written a specific page which I invite you to consult.