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RSS Feeds

RSS Feeds reads the articles published on the RSS feeds you give it: blogs, newspapers, official bulletins or any website that offers an RSS feed. Each article reaches the flow with its full text, ready to summarize, classify or store.

Use it when you want to keep up with what certain websites publish without visiting them one by one.

When to use it

  • Prepare a morning summary of your industry’s news from several outlets.
  • Watch what competitors publish on their blogs and alert the team when they mention a specific topic.
  • Collect the latest entries of an official bulletin or a public body for review.
  • Feed a knowledge base with the articles from the sources your company follows.

Configuration

FieldWhat it does
RSS Feed URLsThe addresses of the RSS feeds you want to read. Click + to add more than one.
OPML data (XML Format)Optional. Paste the content of an OPML file, the format news readers use to export their subscription lists. When you fill it in, the component reads the feeds in that list and ignores RSS Feed URLs.

Output

The Data output returns one item per article. Each item carries the article text and, when the feed publishes them, details such as the title, the link and the publication date.

You can connect it to an agent or a model to summarize or classify the articles, to Parse Data to turn them into text, or to a document store to search them later.

Example

A tax advisory firm wants a daily news summary:

  1. Add RSS Feeds and enter the RSS addresses of three specialist outlets in RSS Feed URLs.
  2. Connect Data to an agent with the instruction “Summarize in five points today’s news that affects small businesses”.
  3. Email the agent’s answer to the team.
  4. Schedule the flow to run every morning from the Scheduler.

Good practices

  • Start with a few feeds: the more you add, the longer the reading takes and the more text reaches the rest of the flow.
  • If you follow many feeds in a news reader, export its list as OPML and paste it into OPML data (XML Format).
  • URL: reads the content of specific web pages.
  • URL Advanced: extracts only the parts of a page you care about.