Multiple RSS Feeds in Email

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Really-simple syndication (RSS) is a web feed that helps users access website updates in a standardized, computer-readable format. Websites generally use RSS feeds to publish frequently updated information, such as blog entries, news headlines, or episodes of audio and video series.

This article explains the following topics:

What are the benefits of RSS?

An RSS feed enables you to embed your content on other websites. If you need to share your content with other sites and allow them to publish it, you can give them a link to your RSS feed, and they can easily embed it. Whenever you publish a new post, it updates its content in real-time.

How can I add multiple RSS feeds to my account?

You can also build your email design with multiple RSS feeds for different topics. First, you should add your feeds to your InOne panel, then you can use them with special tags for multiple feeds. 

To add your feeds, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to Inone > Settings > Inone Settings > Email Settings.

2. Scroll down to RSS Feeds at the bottom of the page.

3. Click the Add RSS Feed button to see a side modal.

4. Enter your RSS Feed Name and RSS Feed Link. Click the Add button for the panel to validate the data.

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RSS Feed Name can consist of alphabetic characters, numbers, and the _ (underscore) sign and be between 3-20 characters. 

If there is no error with the feed, it will be stored. If there is, you will be displayed an error with the exact reason.

5. Once you add your RSS feed, it will be listed under RSS Feeds.

6. Now you need to adjust your RSS tags.

As displayed in Using RSS Feed in Email, your regular tags look as follows:
{$ channel.item.title@isPermalink $}
{$ channel.item.1.media:content.media:description $}
{$ channel.title.2@url $}
{$ channel.item.0.info.title $}

Once you add multiple RSS feeds, you need to add the RSS feed name at the beginning of these tags to use them in your email design. For example, to get any information from the "NASA_breaking_news" feed added to the list, you should change your tags as follows:
{$ NASA_breaking_news.channel.item.title@isPermalink $}
{$ NASA_breaking_news.channel.item.1.media:content.media:description $}
{$ NASA_breaking_news.channel.title.2@url $}
{$ NASA_breaking_news.channel.item.0.info.title $}

You can add up to 20 different RSS feeds with unique feed names and feed URLs.

What does RSS help you with?

RSS allows you to deliver fresh content frequently with less effort. In fact, creating content and scheduling emails manually take more time than we think. The RSS feature enables you to insert new content into your campaign automatically and send it on a scheduled date by only entering an RSS feed URL and tags. 

More on RSS:

  • When a campaign is set to RSS type, the sending time should be scheduled to one hour after the RSS has been updated in the source.
  • Overall statistics for all RSS campaigns are displayed in the campaign statistics.
  •  The comment lines on the feed will not be displayed in the content. E.g. <![CDATA[blabal]]>