How to implement RSS on my newsletter/site?
Hello everyone.
So, I am having a bunch of readers/subscribers that has asked for such a feature.
In fact, they want to be allowed to subscribe and read via RSS but in this case, Emailoctopus is still working on it.
I was wondering, because I really want to implement it but I don't know how to approach this...
This is the newsletter.
- unicornsfeed.com and here is last issue.
- unicornsfeed.com/issues/24
Any ideas?
Any help is welcome, thank you!
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If you're a dev, maybe check out the spec and generate exactly what you want. It's just XML. https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html
You can instruct them to use https://kill-the-newsletter.com.
It turns newsletters into RSS feeds.
Oh, I will have a look to that.
Thank you Soheil.
Results so far:
fetchrss: http://fetchrss.com/rss/5f9d8f03b1b23520916ccb325f9d8eda254bb6215c6a7ca3.atom
It should be displaying 'description' where it is currently showing 'subtitle' - description is a required field for feeds so that's not ideal.
rss app: https://rss.app/feeds/7iCzDSRRugqQVrgR.xml
it has a description field but it's displaying images for that field, which will likely cause an error with rss readers
There is a feed for your previous posts on substack at https://unicornsfeed.substack.com/feed
Ok, I got it....
Then my question is, if the RSS is looking for new content I may not be able to just generate 1.
Why? Because they are different pages...that do not get updated. Hence I will have to generate 1 for every page right?
Or what am missing?
I think it automatically fetches all the articles from a page, so it should be up-to-date when you add a new article. But I'm not sure what happens if your articles span multiple pages eg, can it handle pagination?
Is a completely static website.
I am going to wait until emailoctopus implements it...is easier that way.
You may use an RSS feed generator such as FetchRSS or RSS.app.
But, when your newsletter provider releases the feature, the feed's link will likely change. A possible workaround is to run the feed through Feedburner and provide its output to readers. I havent tested it and I don't know whether it works though.
Oh, a generator?
I will have to dig into that.
Never heard of Feedburner, headingto it.
Thanks a lot Paolo.
You're welcome, I hope it helps.