RSS

Integromat Updated December 30, 2018 21:14

Getting started with RSS

The above modules allow you to import items from an RSS feed/Atom export of any web service. For the set-up, you just need to know the URL of the RSS feed/Atom export.

Common problems with the Watch RSS feed items trigger

Trigger execution failed

There are several situations when a trigger execution can terminate with an error.

• The URL, you have entered, does not exist or does not contain a valid RSS feed/Atom export. If this happens, the scenario gets stopped and you need to enter a correct address.

• The RSS/Atom file size exceeds the allowed limit. If this happens, the import gets stopped. For more information, please refer to the Working with files section.

Trigger did not process RSS feed items

With websites that frequently update their RSS feed/Atom export, it can happen that some RSS feed items do not get processed.

Here is an example. A news portal publishes 40 articles every day but only includes the last 20 articles in its RSS/Atom export feed. If the interval for processing is set to one day, then Integromat sees only the last 20 articles. Integromat does not have access to the previous 20 articles and therefore it cannot process them.

In such case, you need to set a shorter interval for processing the articles, for example, every 12 hours.

If this is not the case and the article still has not been processed, it may be that the trigger has not yet reached the given article when being executed.