Post from an RSS feed

An RSS Feed automation reads any RSS or Atom feed (a blog, a news site, a podcast, a job board) and creates a post for each new item. You decide how the text is written, which image goes with it and where the post ends up.

You need: the feed's address and at least one connected channel. To create automations you need the Admin or Manage Automation right.

Find your feed address

A feed address usually ends in /feed, /rss, /rss.xml, /atom.xml or .xml. Look for an RSS icon or link on the site, or try adding /feed or /rss to the site's address. Open the address in your browser: a feed shows a page of code or a list of items, not the normal website.

Set up an RSS automation

1. Click Posts → Automations (open it), then New Automation.
2. Enter an Automation name and keep Automation Type on RSS Feed.
3. Paste the feed address in URL.
4. Write a Post Template, or switch on Let AI generate the post text (both explained below).
5. Set Maximum RSS items fetched per hour (1 to 5, default 3).
6. Choose the image: the article's own image, an image found with a CSS class, or an AI image.
7. Choose Post To and the channels in For Channels.
8. Click Create Automation. For drafts or collections, enter the Initial Fetch Limit and click Confirm.

If the address isn't a feed Robopost can read, you see Please check your URL and nothing is created.

Write the post text with a template

With AI text off, every post uses your Post Template. Type any text and add these tags; Robopost fills them in for each item:

The default template is {title}: {link}. You can add fixed text and hashtags, for example:

New on the blog: {title} #marketing #smallbusiness
{link}

Let AI write the post text

Switch on Let AI generate the post text to have Robopost read each item and write a caption for it. The Post Template is greyed out while this is on. The caption is written in the article's language (English if Robopost can't tell), and the article's link is added at the end.

Add hashtags to AI captions

1. Switch on Let AI generate the post text.
2. Under AI Text Options, switch on Include hashtags.
3. Optional: switch on Use Custom AI Prompt to steer which hashtags it picks.

Custom prompts that work well:

• "Write an engaging post summarizing the article. Add 3 relevant hashtags about technology and AI. Keep it friendly and concise."
• "Summarize the article in a short social media post. Include 2 or 3 hashtags about our industry."
• "Create a fun post summarizing the content. Add emojis and 3 popular hashtags about digital marketing."

The more specific the prompt, the closer the result. To use the same hashtags on every post, put them in a Post Template instead.

How are posts adapted to each network?

With Directly post to Channels, each channel gets its own post:

In a draft or collection item, all channels share one text. If X is among the channels, it's the shortened X version; otherwise, if Bluesky is, the Bluesky version.

Control links on X

Each X post costs X credits: 1 for a post without a link, 14 for a post with one. Switch on Omit links from X posts to post to X without the article link (1 credit instead of 14). Your other networks keep the link. With this on, an AI caption for X can use the full 280 characters, since no room is kept for the link.

The setting applies to new X posts from this automation. See X credits.

Choose the image

By default, each post uses the article's main image (the one the page shares on social media). Images too small for a network are upscaled automatically. You have three other options:

• Pick a specific image. Switch on Enable fetching image using specific CSS tag and enter the CSS class of the image on your article pages in CSS class for image fetching. If nothing matches, Robopost falls back to the main image.
• Generate an image. Switch on Let AI generate the post image and choose an Image Style under AI Image Settings. Robopost creates a square image from the article. See AI images.
• Resize the image. Switch on Resize Image and choose a Resize Image Ratio: 1:1, 4:5, 16:9 or 9:16. This applies to the article image and to AI images.

Add an AI video to each post

Switch on Let AI generate the post video (Beta) to turn each item into a short narrated video, like a faceless video. Turning it on switches off the AI image, since a post has one or the other. Under Video settings, choose:

• Format: Portrait, Widescreen or Square.
• Style, Max Duration (30 to 60 seconds or 60 to 90 seconds), Voice and Language.
• Background Music: one of your BGM buckets, or Automatically select BGM.
• Show advanced settings for captions, text prefix and suffix, a splash screen and volume.

Each video counts toward your Generated Faceless Videos allowance. Videos take a while to create, so these posts go out later than text and image posts.

Mark AI media as made with AI

When you pick an X channel and AI images or video are on, or a TikTok channel and AI video is on, the switch Mark generated media as made with AI on supported networks appears. Switch it on to label the generated media as AI-made on X and TikTok. Facebook doesn't let apps set its AI label.

Post only some items with Smart Filtering

Switch on Enable Smart Filtering and describe what to keep in Smart Filtering Instructions, for example "Only consider articles about product launches." Before posting, the AI reads each item's title and description and skips the ones that don't match.

Limit how many items are posted per hour

Maximum RSS items fetched per hour (1 to 5, default 3) caps how many new items this automation turns into posts in one hour. Items over the cap wait for the next hour, so a busy feed doesn't flood your channels.

Shorten links

Shorten URLs is on by default for new automations. Robopost replaces the links in each post with short links, so you can count clicks in Short URLs. See Short links.

What does a generated post look like?

With the template {title}: {link} and Shorten URLs on, a new article becomes:

How we cut our shipping times in half: https://<your short link>

with the article's main image attached. With AI text on, the same article could become:

Faster deliveries, happier customers 🚚 We cut our shipping times in half, and here's exactly how we did it.
#ecommerce #logistics https://<your short link>

Drafts appear in Draft posts, collection items in the collection, and published posts in Published posts.

Troubleshoot an RSS automation

"Please check your URL" when creating. The address isn't a feed Robopost can read. Open it in your browser and check you see the feed, not the website. Use the full address, starting with https://.

An RSS Error badge on the card. Click it to see the reason. "Failed to fetch feed" means the site didn't answer or refused the request; "No entries found in feed" means the feed is empty or the address isn't a feed; "Video generation failed" often means you've used your video allowance (check Account → Plan Usage).

No new posts. Check the card shows enabled, that the feed has items Robopost hasn't seen yet, and that Smart Filtering isn't skipping them. Instagram, Pinterest and TikTok need an image: if your articles have no main image, use Let AI generate the post image.

Older articles keep appearing. Robopost treats every item in the feed that it hasn't imported yet as new, at most Maximum RSS items fetched per hour at a time. A feed that lists many old items can keep producing posts for a while. Create the automation with Save as a Draft if you want to review them first.

X posts don't go out. You may be out of X credits: see X credits.

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