RSS Feed

Configure a workflow step that fetches entries from a direct RSS or Atom feed URL

Use RSS Feed when you want a workflow to read entries from a direct RSS or Atom feed URL and pass those entries to later steps.

The step only reads the feed document. It does not discover feeds from a website URL, and it does not scrape article pages. To fetch the article content for each feed entry, send the feed output into an Iteration step and use Website Scrape inside the loop.

Configuration

Option	Required	Description
Name	No	Label for the step in the workflow canvas.
Feed URL	Yes	Direct RSS or Atom feed URL. This field supports workflow variables through Insert Variable.
Item Limit	No	Maximum number of feed entries to return. Defaults to 10. Valid range is 1 to 100.
New items only	No	When enabled, repeated scheduled or deployed runs suppress feed items this workflow scope has already emitted.
When the step fails	No	Controls whether the workflow should Terminate Workflow or Continue if this step fails.

Add this step from the Research group in Search steps....

Output

The step returns normalized feed metadata plus an items array:

{
  "feed": {
    "title": "Example Feed",
    "url": "https://example.com/feed.xml",
    "description": "Latest posts"
  },
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "stable-item-id",
      "guid": "post-123",
      "title": "Post title",
      "url": "https://example.com/posts/post-title",
      "summary": "Entry summary",
      "author": "Author name",
      "published_at": "2026-06-03T12:00:00Z",
      "categories": ["News"],
      "source_url": "https://example.com/feed.xml"
    }
  ]
}

Use these workflow variables in later steps:

{{rss_step.output.feed}}
{{rss_step.output.items}}

For an Iteration step, set Iterator to:

{{rss_step.output.items}}

Inside the iteration body, use each entry's URL with:

{{iteration.item.url}}

Example: summarize new feed articles

Create this workflow:

RSS Feed -> Iteration -> Website Scrape -> AI Prompt -> Aggregate/output

1. Add RSS Feed and set Feed URL to the direct feed URL.

2. Set Item Limit to the number of entries you want per run.

3. Leave New items only enabled for scheduled or repeated deployed runs.

4. Add Iteration and set Iterator to {{rss_step.output.items}}.

5. Inside the iteration body, add Website Scrape and set URL to {{iteration.item.url}}.

6. Add an AI Prompt after the scrape step to summarize the article content.

7. Aggregate or return the summaries from the workflow output.

Notes

• RSS and Atom feed URLs are supported. Website feed discovery is not part of this step.

• The step normalizes relative item URLs to absolute URLs when the feed URL can be used as a base.

• Dedupe is lightweight seen-item suppression for repeated runs. It is not a feed history or replay interface.

• Article scraping and summarization are separate steps so you can control crawl settings, prompts, and aggregation explicitly.

See also: Website Scrape, Testing and Iteration, and Scheduled Deployments