How the Feedly News Aggregator Organizes Sources and Topics
The Feedly news reader and its AI monitoring products, Feedly Market Intelligence and Feedly Threat Intelligence, are run by feedly, Inc. A Feedly scraper works on the public layer of that system: the sources people follow, the topics they are filed under and the counters Feedly keeps for each. The reading side - personal feeds, folders, Feedly boards, Read Later, notes and highlights - belongs to signed-in accounts and stays out of scope.
The unit of record is the feed. Each feed in Feedly is identified by its URL with a feed/ prefix, and a large publisher often owns several: a main feed, section feeds, podcasts, sometimes a subscriber-only full feed. Each has its own title, website, language, topic tags, follower count, articles per week (Feedly calls this velocity), the date it entered Feedly's index and a dormant state once it stops publishing.
Above the feeds sits the Feedly top blogs directory, Discover Top Blogs: topic pages at /i/top/{topic}-blogs, each with a ranked source list, a topic size and related topics. The sitemap lists roughly 4,000 of them. Discovery is localized by language: the English view groups sources by industry, while the French and German views put Liberation, FAZ.NET or Handelsblatt under local hashtags. The paid products show a public face too, in Feedly CVE pages and an AI model library.
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