A while back I had written about an app called GTweet, that allows users to subscribe and read twitter tweets in a feed reader. Similarly if you want to follow updates from a specific Google+ user in your feed reader, it’s not possible because RSS feeds are not yet officially supported by Google Plus.
No worries though. There’s a new service called Google Plus Feed available that turns a user’s stream into an RSS feed. Just like the above mentioned GTweet, this service is also hosted on Appspot.
Update 1:
PlusFeed is no longer functional. However, if you’d like to run your own instance of this app, get the source code from GitHub.
Update 2:
There’s a new instance of this app available now. It can be found at :
Update 3:
plusfeed2 is also offline now, but here are two more free services: Plu.sr: http://plu.sr/ and GPlusRSS http://gplusrss.com/
Its pretty easy to create an RSS feed for a Google+ user. All you require is the user’s profile ID. You can get that by visiting their profile, or by right-clicking on the user name in your stream and copying their profile link.
Below you can see a regular Google+ Profile URL. A user’s ID is the long string of numbers that you see after https:/plus.google.com/. I have underlined the ID in the screenshot. Copy those numbers.
Now that you have the ID, add it at the end of the following URL: .
That is your RSS feed URL. You can now add it your favorite feed reader and subscribe to the user’s updates.
Repeat the same steps to subscribe to other Google+ users.
Plus feed website doesn’t have an interface or any customization options. All you need to remember is the URL. Until Google adds native support for RSS, this is a handy app.