# 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.

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Tip: Asking ChatGPT is often the quickest way to get a site's RSS feed URL!
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If a website has an RSS feed, here's how you get the link manually:

1. Right-click anywhere on the page and click to **view the page source**
2. Use Ctrl+F or Command-F to search for `rss`
3. Copy the link with "rss" in it

### Find an RSS feed URL for a YouTube channel

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This RSS link can be found in the **YouTube channel page's page source**. Make sure you're on the channel page when you look for this link. A video page won't have it, and the link to the page itself won't work either!
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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:

1. Open the **YouTube channel page** you want to monitor
2. Right-click anywhere and click to **view the page source**
3. Search for `rss` or `channel_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`](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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Summarize blog posts from an RSS feed
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{% embed url="<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq5DuoDfJiM&t=1548s>" %}
"Build an AI Agent with me" session on writing LinkedIn content based on an RSS feed
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