Built-in apps

RSS

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with the rss app in {{product name}} , you can monitor and import items from an rss feed/atom export of any website requirements to use the rss app in {{product name}} , you must have a url of an rss feed/atom export a url of the rss feed/atom export retrieve an rss feed url if you don't know the rss/atom feed url of the website you want to retrieve a feed from, you can try adding a common rss feed url part after the website url common feed urls can be in the following formats www website com/feed or www website com/rss for example, https //www make com/en/blog/feed you can retrieve the rss feed url using a third party browser extensions for example, rss subscription extension (chrome) or feedbro (firefox) you can also find the rss feed url in the website's source code open the website you want to retrieve a feed from press ctrl+u (windows) or command+option+u (mac) on your keyboard to view the page source code press ctrl+f (windows) or command+f (mac) on your keyboard to search the page source code search for rss , feed , or atom to find the rss feed url copy the url rss modules triggers watch rss feed items returns feed item details when a feed item is posted field description url enter a url of the rss or atom feed maximum number of returned items set the maximum number of feed items {{product name}} will return during one execution cycle if the value is set too high, the connection may be interrupted on the side of the given third party service (timeout) {{product name}} has no influence on this we recommend you set a lower value, and either define a higher value for the maximum number of cycles or run the {{scenario singular lowercase}} more frequently user name enter the user name if the feed is password protected password enter the password if the feed is password protected process rss fields enable the google merchant center option to process fields from the google merchant center feed request compressed content enable this option to request a compressed version of the website actions retrieve rss feed items retrieves feed items from the specified url field description url enter a url of the rss or atom feed date from enter a date you want to filter returned rss feed items from {{product name}} will process all items that are more recent than the specified date date to enter a date up to which you want to filter returned rss feed items {{product name}} will process all items dated on or before the specified date maximum number of returned items set the maximum number of feed items {{product name}} will return during one execution cycle if the value is set too high, the connection may be interrupted on the side of the given third party service (timeout) {{product name}} has no influence on this we recommend you set a lower value, and either define a higher value for the maximum number of cycles or run the {{scenario singular lowercase}} more frequently request compressed content enable this option to request a compressed version of the website troubleshooting trigger execution failed there are several situations when a trigger execution can terminate with an error the url you have entered does not exist or does not contain a valid rss feed/atom export if this happens, the {{scenario singular lowercase}} will be stopped, and you will need to enter the correct address the rss/atom file size exceeds the allowed limit if this happens, the import will be stopped for more information, please refer to the working with files docid\ oauioo6oujv0fyglzmrte article trigger did not process rss feed items with websites that frequently update their rss feed/atom export, it can happen that some rss feed items do not get processed here is an example a news portal publishes 40 articles every day, but it only includes the last 20 articles in its rss/atom export feed if the interval for processing is set to one day, then {{scenario singular}} sees only the last 20 articles {{product name}} does not have access to the previous 20 articles, and therefore it cannot process them if this is the case, you'll need to set a shorter interval for processing the articles, like every 12 hours if this is not the case, and the article still has not been processed, it may be that the trigger has not yet reached the given article when executed