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Auto feeds (RSS)

Point Sosyabot at a website, and every time that site publishes a new article it gets posted to your channels for you.

Why use it

A blog or news site you follow keeps adding new articles. Instead of copying each one by hand, Sosyabot can watch the site and share every new article to your channels on its own, so your feed stays fresh without any work.

Step by step

Know what a feed is

A "feed" is just a website's live list of its newest articles. Most blogs and news sites have one. You only need the site's address (or its feed address) to get started.

Add the site

Open the Auto feeds page and choose to add a new feed. Paste in the website's address and give it a name you'll recognize.

Pick your channels

Choose which of your connected channels should receive the articles. New articles from that site will start posting to them automatically.

TIP

Start with one trusted website and one channel. Once you see it working the way you like, add more.

Good to know

  • Sosyabot checks the site on a schedule and posts each new article it finds.
  • The article's title and text are turned into your post, and any picture from the article comes along too.
  • This is a paid feature: your plan needs auto feeds turned on and an active subscription to add a new one. You can still view existing feeds without it.
For developers

RSS / Atom feeds are managed through /api/v1/rss-schedules:

GET    /api/v1/rss-schedules               list
POST   /api/v1/rss-schedules               create  (requires posts.rss feature + active subscription)
PUT    /api/v1/rss-schedules/:id           update  (gated)
DELETE /api/v1/rss-schedules/:id           delete  (gated)
POST   /api/v1/rss-schedules/:id/fetch     manual poll trigger

Write operations are guarded by requireFeature("posts.rss") and requireActiveSubscription. Plans without the posts.rss feature can read existing schedules but cannot create new ones. Each new entry is queued as a post on a schedule; the entry's title and content map into the caption template and its media URL is passed through to the post attachments.