Import from another reader
Export an OPML file from your old reader and follow everything in it at once.
OPML is the file every feed reader uses to carry a subscription list. Reader follows every feed in one, and keeps the folders it describes.
Export from your old reader
Look in your old reader's settings for Export, Download OPML or Subscriptions. You get a small file ending in .opml or .xml. Feedly, Inoreader, Feedbin and NewsBlur all offer one.
Import the file
Open Settings
Open the menu with your name at the foot of the sidebar and choose Settings.
Choose the file
Under Carrying your subscriptions, pick your file in OPML file.
Import
Press Import. Reader follows each feed in the file and files it into the folder the file names. Posts start arriving in Reading within a minute.
Read what the import says
Settings reports what happened to every feed in the file:
- Followed: new feeds now in your queue.
- Already followed: feeds you had, left as they were.
- Could not be retrieved: the address did not answer with a feed. See Reader says a site has no feed.
- Left out: feeds past your plan's limit. Free follows 20 feeds, Paid 200 and Premium 500.
Questions
Can I import the same file twice?
Yes. Feeds you already follow are counted as already followed and left alone.
Is there a size limit?
Reader reads files up to one megabyte. A subscription list is a few hundred kilobytes at most.
Does it bring my read and saved posts?
No. OPML carries only the list of feeds. Each feed's recent posts arrive fresh, unread.