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RSS Feeds

This component in Nappai lets you pull news articles from websites that offer RSS feeds. It takes the raw news data and organizes it into a format that’s easy for Nappai to use for other tasks. Think of it as a news aggregator built right into your automation system.

Relationship with RSS Feeds

This component directly interacts with RSS feeds (Really Simple Syndication), a standard web format for sharing news and other regularly updated content. It reads the feed URLs you provide and extracts the articles.

Inputs

  • RSS Feed URLs: Enter one or more web addresses (URLs) of RSS feeds. You can add multiple URLs to get news from several sources at once. For example: https://www.example.com/rss.xml, https://anothernewssite.com/feed.
  • OPML data (XML Format): Paste XML data from an OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) file. This is an advanced option that lets you import a whole list of RSS feed URLs from a single file. This is useful if you have a large collection of feeds already organized in an OPML file.

Outputs

The component produces a list of news articles. Each article includes the article’s content and important information like the title, date, and source. This organized data can then be used by other Nappai components, such as:

  • Summarizer: To create short summaries of the news articles.
  • Categorizer: To automatically sort articles into different categories (e.g., business, sports, technology).
  • Entities extraction: To identify key people, places, and organizations mentioned in the news.
  • Google Sheet Writer: To automatically populate a Google Sheet with the news data.

Usage Example

Let’s say you want to get news from two websites: BBC News and CNN. You would enter the RSS feed URLs for both websites into the “RSS Feed URLs” input field, separated by commas or on separate lines. Nappai will then fetch the articles and make them available for processing by other components.

Templates

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  • Summarizer: Creates concise summaries of the news articles extracted by this component.
  • Categorizer: Organizes the news articles into predefined categories.
  • Entities extraction: Extracts key entities (people, places, organizations) from the news articles.
  • Google Sheet Writer: Writes the extracted news data to a Google Sheet.
  • [Other components listed in the prompt]: Many other components can use the structured news data produced by this component as input for various automation tasks. (Please note that a full description of each related component would make this documentation excessively long. Consider linking to separate documentation for each component.)

Tips and Best Practices

  • Make sure the RSS feed URLs you enter are correct. A misspelled URL will prevent the component from working.
  • If you’re using the OPML input, ensure your OPML file is well-formed XML.
  • For best performance, avoid adding too many RSS feeds at once. Consider breaking down your feeds into smaller groups if you have a very large number of sources.

Security Considerations

  • Nappai only accesses the information provided through the RSS feeds. It does not access any other data on the websites providing the feeds.
  • Always ensure that the RSS feeds you use are from trustworthy and reputable sources.