RSS Integration
Connect any RSS feed to a mix. The most universal integration, and usually the first one to try.
Point the integration at an RSS feed URL and every new item becomes a card.
RSS is the most universal of the integrations. Almost every news site, blog, podcast host and content management system publishes one, often without advertising it. When you want to connect something and there is no dedicated integration for it, look for an RSS feed first.
What it does for you
Connect almost anything. Your own website, a trade publication, a partner blog, an internal CMS that publishes a feed.
No platform in the middle. RSS is a plain, open format. There is no login, no API key and no company changing its access rules.
The most reliable source type. Fewer moving parts than any of the social integrations.
Settings
Feed URL. The address of the feed itself, not the website's homepage.
How to find it:
Try
/feed,/rssor/feed.xmlafter the domain. Many sites answer on one of them.Look in the page source for
application/rss+xml.WordPress sites almost always serve
yourdomain.com/feed.Many sites have a section-level feed. A category feed keeps the mix on topic where the site-wide feed would not.
A correct feed URL opens in a browser as a page of structured items, not as the normal website.
Mix, name, backfill and auto-publish work as described in How integrations work.
Limitations
The feed decides what you get. Some feeds carry the full article, some carry a headline and two lines. That is set by whoever publishes the feed and cannot be changed from our side.
Feed length. Most feeds only list the newest 10 to 20 items. That caps how far a backfill can reach, whichever number you choose.
Feeds break quietly. A site redesign or a CMS migration can move or kill a feed. The integration goes to Error, and since errors are silent, nobody notices until someone looks.
The usual shared limits apply. Roughly 30 minutes between checks, silent errors, one-time backfill, metadata as the publisher wrote it. See the overview page.
Summary
The workhorse. If a source has a feed, this is the cleanest way to connect it. Find the feed URL, prefer a section feed over a site-wide one, and check whether the feed carries enough text to make a decent card.
