# Open OPML from URL

**URL:** https://forum.antennapod.org/t/open-opml-from-url/7407
**Category:** Feature request
**Created:** [September 22, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/open-opml-from-url/7407 "2025-09-22T20:18:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
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### Author: ![polettix](https://forum.antennapod.org/user_avatar/forum.antennapod.org/polettix/32/4223_2.png) [@polettix](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/polettix)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/open-opml-from-url/7407/1 "2025-09-22T20:18:45Z")

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**App version** : 3.9.0 (Google Play)

**Problem you may be having, or feature you want** :

This has already been asked but I didn’t feel like re-opening a topic after 10 months: [Subscribe to OPML URL rather than only being able to import static .opml file - #2 by loucasal](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/subscribe-to-opml-url-rather-than-only-being-able-to-import-static-opml-file/5733/2)

Currently, the only way to select podcasts from an OPML file is to first download it with a browser, then load it from Antennapod.

It would be great to open an OPML file from a URL too, with the same behaviour as opening a file locally. This would allow compiling one big list of podcasts, expose the list in the internet as OPML and allow cherry-picking podcasts of interest directly from a URL (possibly leveraging the same copy-and-paste trick that’s present for RSS files).

My use case is that I like compiling lists of audiobooks that are freely available around (e.g. Gutenberg, LibriVox, LiberLiber, etc.) and share these lists with family and friends. The current download-then-open approach is frankly cumbersome, especially for those that struggle a bit with using technology.

**Suggested solution:**

**Baseline suggestion** : allow using a URL pointing to a OPML file in addition to the current file-loading approach. After the download, the contents would be used exactly as it happens when loading a file locally, i.e. only allow selecting podcasts to _add_ to the current list of subscriptions.

**Nice to have addition** : keep a bookmarks list of OPML URLs, so that one can re-open a URL later in case of new additions or just new cherry-picking needs.

**Screenshots / Drawings / Technical details** :