View & Edit Your Podcast Subscriptions

An OPML file is just XML underneath, organized as nested outline elements sitting inside a single body tag. A podcast subscription is represented as an outline carrying an xmlUrl attribute that points at the show's RSS feed; a category or folder is a different kind of outline entirely -- one with no feed URL attached to it at all -- that simply contains other outlines nested inside it as children. That's really the entire structure: folders are outlines without feeds attached, shows are outlines that have one.

This distinction is also where imports commonly go wrong between different apps. Some podcast apps flatten categories entirely on export, dumping every single show at the top level with no folder structure preserved whatsoever; others keep folders intact but rename them inconsistently between one export and the next. When you view a file here, an outline with no xmlUrl and children nested underneath it is being treated as a category, while an outline carrying an xmlUrl but no children is treated as an individual show -- if a file looks oddly flat or unexpectedly nested, checking which of these two patterns it's actually using usually explains why immediately.

The most common issues worth checking carefully before any import are missing xmlUrl values (an entry that visually looks like a normal show but has no working feed attached), and htmlUrl fields that point at a broken or entirely unrelated website, which doesn't stop the underlying subscription from working correctly but is worth cleaning up if you're building a tidy list specifically to hand off to someone else or archive properly.

Viewing and editing a file here is meaningfully different from generating one from scratch: this particular tool is for inspecting and trimming a list you already have on hand, removing shows you no longer actually follow, before importing the cleaned-up result into The Podcast App or any other compatible player. If you're instead trying to build an entirely new subscription list from nothing at all, the separate OPML generator tool elsewhere on this site is the better starting point for that specific job.

A quick note on privacy and portability: because the viewer parses your OPML in the browser and never needs an account, your subscription list is not uploaded, stored, or shared. That makes it safe to inspect an export from any app before importing it somewhere new, and it means you can keep a plain-text OPML backup of your own library as cheap insurance. If a feed URL looks wrong or a show is missing, you can spot it here first and fix the source export rather than discovering the gap after a migration.