Thursday, February 18, 2010

Adding Google Reader Feeds to Apple Mail

I have wanted for a while to add my Google Reader feeds to Apple Mail, but did not want to manually enter each feed. After a bit of googling I found the below method at;


Just need to add that you need to CD into the download directory before running the Perl command. I also added a Smart mailbox to capture all the unread messages in one location.


If you'd like to move your collection of RSS feeds into 10.5's Mail, here's how:
  1. Export an OPML file from your favorite feed reader (Google Reader for me)
  2. Run the following command in Terminal: perl -lne 'print $1 if /"(http.*?)"/' google-reader-subscriptions.xml | pbcopy
  3. Open Mail
  4. Go to File » Add RSS Feeds...
  5. Choose the Specify a custom feed URL radio button
  6. Click in the entry box and hit Command-V to paste the feed URLs
  7. Click the Add button


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