RSS Trigger
With the RSS trigger, you can start workflows when there are new items in an RSS feed.
Find an RSS feed URL
To specify what feed to monitor with your RSS trigger, you need an RSS feed URL. An RSS feed URL is different from a website's URL. Many sites (like YouTube, WordPress, Medium) but not all offer RSS feeds.
If you're not sure whether a website has an RSS feed, a quick internet search is usually the quickest way to check.
If a website does have an RSS feed, here's how you get the link:
Right-click anywhere on the page and click to view the page source
Use Ctrl+F or Command-F to search for
rss
Copy the link with "rss" in it
Find an RSS feed URL for a YouTube channel
To find the RSS feed URL for a YouTube channel, you need to enter the URL in this format. Note that this is not the link to the channel page itself!
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID
To find this link:
Open the YouTube channel page you want to monitor
Right-click anywhere and click to view the page source
Search for
rss
orchannel_id
and copy the link it's in
For example, for the Relay.app YouTube feed URL, it's:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCIENacxDzvxb7mWIXZRZtAQ
Examples of workflow with the RSS feed trigger
Here are a few demo videos that use this trigger:
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