As an example, I recently wanted to subscribe to the RawTools newsletter. When I went to their newsletter subscription page, I noticed that their URL looked like this: https://rawtools.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=00722345fc94fb4d4b323edc3&id=4ff553ba3e
If you can find a URL from a Mailchimp email campaign in a format like this, you can usually use it to get its respective RSS feed.
There are 3 pieces we need in order to find this list’s RSS feed, and all of them we can find in this URL:
us11 - This appears to be the Mailchimp server location associated with the mailing list’s account
u=00722345fc94fb4d4b323edc3 - I think this is a user identification code? Not sure. We need it, though!
id=4ff553ba3e - Again, not 100% sure what this is; possibly a list id? We need it too, regardless ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Once we’ve got those pieces, we can use them to construct our RSS feed.
A Mailchimp list’s RSS feed looks like this:
https://[SERVER LOCATION CODE].campaign-archive.com/feed?u=["u" CODE]&id=["id" CODE]
The campaign-archive and /feed parts are the important parts that need to be switched out here.
So, we put all those pieces together, and end up with the following feed URL:
https://us11.campaign-archive.com/feed?u=00722345fc94fb4d4b323edc3&id=4ff553ba3e
Then, adding that into an RSS reader app gives us the last few campaign emails that were sent out from that list, as well as allows us to be notified of future emails without it cluttering up our email inbox.
As an example, I recently wanted to subscribe to the RawTools newsletter. When I went to their newsletter subscription page, I noticed that their URL looked like this: https://rawtools.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=00722345fc94fb4d4b323edc3&id=4ff553ba3e
If you can find a URL from a Mailchimp email campaign in a format like this, you can usually use it to get its respective RSS feed.
There are 3 pieces we need in order to find this list’s RSS feed, and all of them we can find in this URL:
us11 - This appears to be the Mailchimp server location associated with the mailing list’s account
u=00722345fc94fb4d4b323edc3 - I think this is a user identification code? Not sure. We need it, though!
id=4ff553ba3e - Again, not 100% sure what this is; possibly a list id? We need it too, regardless ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Once we’ve got those pieces, we can use them to construct our RSS feed.
A Mailchimp list’s RSS feed looks like this:
https://[SERVER LOCATION CODE].campaign-archive.com/feed?u=["u" CODE]&id=["id" CODE]
The campaign-archive and /feed parts are the important parts that need to be switched out here.
So, we put all those pieces together, and end up with the following feed URL:
https://us11.campaign-archive.com/feed?u=00722345fc94fb4d4b323edc3&id=4ff553ba3e
Then, adding that into an RSS reader app gives us the last few campaign emails that were sent out from that list, as well as allows us to be notified of future emails without it cluttering up our email inbox.
I thought I’d found one of these before but there are none currently sitting in my blogroll. Hope it’s useful to someone!
