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.

Tip: Asking ChatGPT is often the quickest way to get a site's RSS feed URL!

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

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!

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

Examples of workflow with the RSS feed trigger

Here are a few demo videos that use this trigger:

Summarize blog posts from an RSS feed

"Build an AI Agent with me" session on writing LinkedIn content based on an RSS feed