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Feed Export

We are pleased to announce support for exporting your feeds. This is a feature that we hope no one is waiting to use but is important for being a good steward of your data.

Simply go to https://feedmail.org/subscriptions/export (or click the link from your subscription list) to download your subscriptions in one of two currently supported formats.

OPML is an industry-standard format for migrating feeds between readers including podcast clients. (Did you know that you can use FeedMail to get notified of new podcast episodes?) When exporting to OPML a different category is created for each of your emails and rich metadata such as feed titles are included for ease of use.

The text file export is the simplest possible format. The downloaded file will simply be a list of feed URLs, one-per line. This format is also widely supported and it's simplicity makes it easy to use in ad hoc automation.

We hope this is helpful to you whether you want to make an extra backup of your subscription list, run some personal data analysis or have decided that FeedMail is not the reader for you.

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