Do paid Substack posts show up in the RSS feed?

They appear as previews: title, opening paragraphs, then a paywall marker. Full text of paid posts requires subscribing through Substack itself.

Is reading by RSS allowed, or a workaround?

It is a supported feature — Substack publishes the feeds deliberately. Writers see RSS readers in their audience stats.

Every Substack has an RSS feed at /feed

Every Substack publication publishes its feed at the same path. No account, no email address, no unsubscribe links — the newsletter simply arrives in your reader like any blog.

https://NEWSLETTER.substack.com/feed

How to do it

Take the newsletter's addressWhatever the publication's home is — somename.substack.com — that is the base.
Add /feedThe feed is always at …substack.com/feed. Custom-domain Substacks (like www.example.com) follow the same rule: add /feed to the custom domain.
Paste it into your readerFree posts arrive in full. Paywalled posts arrive as previews — the feed marks where the paywall starts, so you still see that the post exists.

Verified Substack feeds we crawl

Live feeds from our own crawler — the post counts are measured over the last 90 days, not copied from anyone's marketing page. One click follows the feed in HushFlow Reader; the URL works in any reader.

Source	Feed URL	Posts, last 90 days
Don't Worry About the Vase	`https://thezvi.substack.com/feed`	65	Follow
TheSequence	`https://thesequence.substack.com/feed`	54	Follow
Marcus on AI	`https://garymarcus.substack.com/feed`	50	Follow
Nate’s Substack	`https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/feed`	27	Follow
True Positive Weekly	`https://aiweekly.substack.com/feed`	16	Follow
Data Science Weekly Newsletter	`https://datascienceweekly.substack.com/feed`	15	Follow

Denominator: 6 feeds shown, chosen by recent activity from the 25 we crawl on this platform.

Questions people actually ask

Do paid Substack posts show up in the RSS feed?: They appear as previews: title, opening paragraphs, then a paywall marker. Full text of paid posts requires subscribing through Substack itself.
Is reading by RSS allowed, or a workaround?: It is a supported feature — Substack publishes the feeds deliberately. Writers see RSS readers in their audience stats.

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