RSS

Open Scheduling, then RSS. Name the feed, paste a public http or https address, and choose the accounts on this brand that should receive new items. A feed address cannot include a password, and it cannot be a local or private host.

Each feed has a mode:

• Drafts. Each new item becomes a draft and waits for a person.
• Add to time slots. Each new item becomes a draft and is placed in the next free timeslot. If no slot is free, the item stays a draft and the feed says why.

Template and dedupe

The caption is a template. These placeholders are replaced:

• {{title}}
• {{link}}
• {{description}}
• {{author}}
• {{published}}

The default is the title, a blank line, and the link. HTML in the description is reduced to text. The feed is not treated as instructions.

An item is kept once, by its guid when the feed has one, otherwise by its link. A later poll does not create that item again. The worker checks an active feed on the interval you set, from every 15 minutes to once a day. The default is 30 minutes.

A file attached to the item is saved into the brand library when the address can be downloaded. If that download fails, the draft is still created and the feed records the reason.

A feed does not approve or publish by itself. The product does not scrape a social website to imitate a feed.