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* [Access your feeds on a mobile device](06_Mobile_access.md)
* [Add some extensions](https://github.com/FreshRSS/Extensions)
* [Frequently asked questions](07_Frequently_Asked_Questions.md)
FreshRSS has a built-in engine that [scraps a website to create an own feed](11_website_scraping.md).
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# Website scraping
FreshRSS has a built-in [Web scrapping](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping) engine that generates a feed from websites that have no RSS/Atom feed published.
## How to add
Go to “Subscription Management” where a new feed can be added.
Change the “Type of feed source” to “HTML + XPath (Web scrapping)”.
An additional list of text boxes to configure the web scraping.
[XPath 1.0](https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-10/) is used as traversing language.
### Get the XPath path
Firefox: the built-in “inspect” tool may be used to help create a valid XPath expression.
Select the node in the HTML, right click with your mouse and chose “Copy” and “XPath”.
The XPath is stored in your clipboard now.
## Tipps & tricks
- [Timezone of date](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/discussions/5483)
## Recommended external manuals
- [XPath Scraping with FreshRSS, by Dan Q](https://danq.me/2022/09/27/freshrss-xpath/) (September 2022)