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scan

Scans a page for already-published RSS/Atom/JSON Feed declarations (via autodiscovery links, feed icons, link heuristics, WebSub, and optional sitemaps) and reports them.

newsworker scan URL [OPTIONS]
OptionAliasDefaultDescription
--format-fjsonOutput format: json, rss, atom, csv, opml.
--sitemapfalseAlso discover feed URLs from the site's /sitemap.xml.
--no-verifyfalseSkip fetching and parsing candidate feeds.
--output-o(stdout)Write the result to a file.
--verbose-vfalseVerbose logging.
newsworker scan "https://www.dta.gov.au/news/"
newsworker scan "https://www.dta.gov.au/news/" -f opml -o feeds.opml
newsworker scan "https://example.com" --sitemap --format json

scan verifies every candidate feed by parsing it unless --no-verify is set. feedtype, num_entries, and language metadata are included where available.

See discovery and output formats.