RSS

Media Feed URL Windmill docs

Read an RSS or Atom feed from any Windmill script or flow, and run something when a new item appears.

Set up in 3 steps

1

Find the feed URL

Most sites publish it in the page head or link to it directly. Any URL returning RSS or Atom works.

2

Add the resource in Windmill

Open Resources, add a resource of type rss, and paste the URL.

3

Schedule the trigger

The feed fetcher below is a trigger script: give it a schedule, and it returns only the items it has not seen before.

Scripts

Building blocks, if none of the projects above fit. Fork one, run it, or call it as a step inside your own flow.

Trigger flows from RSS

RSS is not only a destination. These inbound paths are supported today.

New feed items

A scheduled run returns only what appeared since the last one, so a flow acts once per item.

Resource type

rss — the shape of the credential every script on this page expects.

View raw schema →
FieldTypeRequiredWhat it is
urlstringYesFeed URL

Questions

How does it know what is new?

The trigger script keeps a watermark between runs. Its first run sets the mark and returns nothing rather than replaying the whole feed.