# RSS.app — full summary > RSS.app generates RSS feeds from websites and social media, turns those feeds > into embeddable website widgets, auto-posts them to Discord, Slack, Telegram > and email, and serves them over a REST API. No coding required. This file mirrors content published at https://rss.app and is the expanded form of https://rss.app/llms.txt. Every page linked below is the source of truth for what it describes; where this file states a number, the linked page is where that number comes from and where it will be corrected first. ## What RSS.app does An RSS feed is a machine-readable list of a source's newest items. Most of the web no longer publishes one. RSS.app's job is to produce a feed for a source that has none, and then to do something useful with it. The work splits into four stages, and a given user may only need the first: 1. **Generate.** Give RSS.app a URL and it returns a feed. The source can be a blog, a news site, a social profile, a search or hashtag, a page region you pick by hand, an email newsletter, or a page whose changes you want watched. 2. **Shape.** Feeds can be merged into one bundle, filtered by keyword, de-duplicated, age-limited, curated item by item, trimmed to a post count, or translated. 3. **Deliver.** A feed can be embedded on a website as a widget, auto-posted to a Slack, Discord or Telegram channel, mailed out as a digest, pushed to a webhook, or simply subscribed to in any RSS reader. 4. **Read programmatically.** Feeds and bundles are available over a REST API and can be exported as JSON, CSV or OPML. Feeds refresh on a schedule set by the plan — every 15 minutes on the faster plans, every 24 hours on the free one — so a widget, a bot or an API consumer sees new items without polling the original source. ## Generating a feed - [RSS feed generator](https://rss.app/rss-feed) — the main entry point. Paste the URL of a website, blog, news site or social profile and RSS.app returns a feed for it. There are dedicated pages for the individual sources RSS.app supports, reachable from that hub. - [Visual RSS builder](https://rss.app/rss-feed/rss-builder) — for pages the automatic generator cannot read, select the repeating element and then the fields inside it: title, description, image, date, link. Described in [the advanced builder guide](https://rss.app/guides/rss-generator/advanced-rss-builder). Worked examples: [a real-time log element](https://rss.app/builder/logs-real-time-element), [monitoring one element for changes](https://rss.app/builder/monitor-changes-of-an-element), [an HTML table](https://rss.app/builder/tables-of-HTML-feed), [a unique news feed](https://rss.app/builder/unique-news-feed-now). - [Keyword and topic feeds](https://rss.app/googlenews-website) — feeds built from a search rather than a single source, including Google News searches and topics. This is the pattern people reach for as a Google Alerts replacement. - [Newsletter to RSS](https://rss.app/tools/newsletter-to-rss-feed-email-feed) — RSS.app issues an email address; anything a newsletter sends to it becomes feed items, readable in an RSS reader instead of an inbox. Also presented as a [Kill the Newsletter alternative](https://rss.app/tools/kill-the-newsletter-alternative). - [Change detection](https://rss.app/tools/change-detection) — watch a page, or one element on it, and publish an item when it changes. - [Newsletter directory](https://rss.app/rss-feed/newsletters) — ready-made feeds for newsletters that are already published, organised by category. ## Shaping a feed - [Bundles](https://rss.app/feed-bundles) — merge multiple feeds into a single aggregated feed with its own URL, usable anywhere a feed is. - [Filters](https://rss.app/feed-filters) — include or exclude by keyword, drop duplicates, hide posts older than a cut-off. Filters apply before delivery, so a widget or a bot only ever sees what survived them. - [Collections](https://rss.app/feed-collections) — a feed built by adding individual article URLs, rather than from a source. - [Manual curation](https://rss.app/curate) — approve items by hand before they publish, for feeds that go somewhere public. - [Translation](https://rss.app/translate-rss-feeds) — translate a feed's posts into another language automatically; 30+ languages are supported, built in or via DeepL. ## Embedding on a website Widgets are embeddable views of a feed. They are configured in RSS.app and dropped into a page as a snippet, and they update themselves as the feed does. They are responsive by default and their fonts, colours, spacing and CSS can be changed. Layouts, each with its own page: - [List](https://rss.app/rss-widgets/list-widget) - [Feed](https://rss.app/rss-widgets/feed-widget) - [Carousel](https://rss.app/rss-widgets/carousel-widget) - [Magazine](https://rss.app/rss-widgets/magazine-widget) - [News wall](https://rss.app/rss-widgets/news-wall-widget) - [Imageboard](https://rss.app/rss-widgets/imageboard-widget) - [News ticker](https://rss.app/rss-widgets/news-ticker-widget) - [All widget layouts](https://rss.app/rss-widgets) Source-specific widgets, for embedding one platform's content: - [Facebook](https://rss.app/html-widgets/facebook-html-widget) - [Google](https://rss.app/html-widgets/google-html-widget) - [Instagram](https://rss.app/html-widgets/instagram-html-widget) - [Pinterest](https://rss.app/html-widgets/pinterest-html-widget) - [TikTok](https://rss.app/html-widgets/tiktok-html-widget) - [X/Twitter](https://rss.app/html-widgets/twitter-html-widget) - [YouTube](https://rss.app/html-widgets/youtube-html-widget) - [All HTML widgets](https://rss.app/html-widgets) [RSS to HTML](https://rss.app/rss-to-html) covers the same job for a page that wants plain rendered HTML rather than a configured widget. [Showcase](https://rss.app/showcase) has examples in use. ## Auto-posting and alerts A bot watches a feed and posts each new item to a destination channel. [All bots](https://rss.app/bots) are organised both by destination and by source. By destination: [Slack](https://rss.app/bots/categories/slack), [Discord](https://rss.app/bots/categories/discord), [Telegram](https://rss.app/bots/categories/telegram), [email](https://rss.app/bots/categories/email). By source, each source pairs with each of those four destinations — for example [Instagram to Slack](https://rss.app/bots/instagram-slack-bot), [YouTube to Discord](https://rss.app/bots/youtube-discord-bot), [Reddit to Telegram](https://rss.app/bots/reddit-telegram-bot), [X/Twitter to email](https://rss.app/bots/twitter-email-bot). The sources with bot pages are Facebook, Google, Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit, TikTok, X/Twitter, YouTube, and any existing RSS feed. Email can also be the source rather than the destination: [email to Slack](https://rss.app/bot-integrations/email-to-slack), [email to Discord](https://rss.app/bot-integrations/email-to-discord), [email to Telegram](https://rss.app/bot-integrations/email-to-telegram). Keyword alerts are the same delivery with a search as the source: [Slack](https://rss.app/news-alerts/slack), [Discord](https://rss.app/news-alerts/discord), [Telegram](https://rss.app/news-alerts/telegram), with setup walkthroughs at [create Slack news alerts](https://rss.app/news-alerts/create-slack-news-alerts), [create Discord news alerts](https://rss.app/news-alerts/create-discord-news-alerts) and [create Telegram news alerts](https://rss.app/news-alerts/create-telegram-news-alerts). [RSS to email](https://rss.app/tools/rss-to-email) delivers a feed as a scheduled email digest to a mailbox rather than to a chat channel. ## AI Briefs RSS.app can generate an AI-written summary of a feed or of a bundle. Briefs can be generated on demand or on a recurring schedule, and a custom prompt can set the style and focus of the output. Plans include a monthly allowance of preview credits; further credits are available as an add-on. Which of those parts a plan includes is listed on [the pricing page](https://rss.app/pricing). ## Reading feeds programmatically - [API overview](https://rss.app/docs/api) - [Authentication](https://rss.app/docs/api/authentication) - Feeds: [list](https://rss.app/docs/api/feeds/list), [retrieve](https://rss.app/docs/api/feeds/retrieve), [create from a URL](https://rss.app/docs/api/feeds/create-by-url), [create from a keyword](https://rss.app/docs/api/feeds/create-by-keyword), [update](https://rss.app/docs/api/feeds/update), [delete](https://rss.app/docs/api/feeds/delete), [read settings](https://rss.app/docs/api/feeds/settings-get), [update settings](https://rss.app/docs/api/feeds/settings-update) - Bundles: [list](https://rss.app/docs/api/bundles/list), [retrieve](https://rss.app/docs/api/bundles/retrieve), [create](https://rss.app/docs/api/bundles/create), [update](https://rss.app/docs/api/bundles/update), [delete](https://rss.app/docs/api/bundles/delete), [add a feed](https://rss.app/docs/api/bundles/add-feed), [remove a feed](https://rss.app/docs/api/bundles/delete-feed) - [Webhooks](https://rss.app/docs/api/webhooks) — receive a request when a feed updates, instead of polling. - [Pagination](https://rss.app/docs/api/pagination) and [errors](https://rss.app/docs/api/errors) Exports for code and spreadsheets: [RSS to JSON](https://rss.app/tools/rss-to-json), [RSS to CSV](https://rss.app/tools/rss-to-csv). OPML export is available for moving a set of feeds into another reader. ## Guides - [What is RSS](https://rss.app/guides/what-is-rss): [how RSS works](https://rss.app/guides/what-is-rss/how-rss-works), [why use RSS](https://rss.app/guides/what-is-rss/why-use-rss), [how to use RSS](https://rss.app/guides/what-is-rss/how-to-use-rss) - [RSS generator](https://rss.app/guides/rss-generator): [how it works](https://rss.app/guides/rss-generator/how-it-works), [when to use it](https://rss.app/guides/rss-generator/when-to-use), [the advanced builder](https://rss.app/guides/rss-generator/advanced-rss-builder) - [RSS widgets](https://rss.app/guides/rss-widgets): [how widgets work](https://rss.app/guides/rss-widgets/how-widgets-work), [setup and embedding](https://rss.app/guides/rss-widgets/setup-and-embedding) - [RSS bots](https://rss.app/guides/rss-bots): [how bots work](https://rss.app/guides/rss-bots/how-bots-work), [setup and configuration](https://rss.app/guides/rss-bots/setup-and-configuration) ## Use cases [Solutions](https://rss.app/solutions) describes the recurring ones: - [Brand monitoring](https://rss.app/solutions/brand-monitoring) - [Competitor monitoring](https://rss.app/solutions/competitor-monitoring) - [News monitoring](https://rss.app/solutions/news-monitoring) - [Financial market aggregation](https://rss.app/solutions/financial-market-aggregator) - [Portfolio monitoring](https://rss.app/solutions/portfolio-monitoring) - [Regulatory and policy monitoring](https://rss.app/solutions/regulatory-policy-monitoring) - [Legal, patent and IP tracking](https://rss.app/solutions/legal-patent-ip) - [Cybersecurity risk alerts](https://rss.app/solutions/cybersecurity-risk-alerts) - [Internal comms](https://rss.app/solutions/internal-comms) - [Social news walls](https://rss.app/solutions/social-news-walls) ## Pricing https://rss.app/pricing is the live and authoritative source. The figures below were read from the same plan data that page renders, on 2026-08-05, and can change. Prices are US dollars per month. The annual figure is the monthly rate when the plan is paid for twelve months; the plan is still described and billed as a monthly rate. Every paid plan starts with a 7-day free trial, no credit card is required to sign up, and a subscription can be cancelled at any time. | | Free | Basic | Developer | Pro | |---|---|---|---|---| | Monthly price | $0 | $9.99 | $19.99 | $99.99 | | Annual price, per month | — | $8.32 | $16.64 | $83.32 | | Feeds | 2 | 15 | 100 | 500 | | Refresh interval | 24 hours | 60 minutes | 15 minutes | 15 minutes | | Posts per feed | 5 | 25 | 50 | 50 | | Posts per bundle | 5 | 25 | 50 | 50 | | Widgets | 1 | 4 | 20 | 100 | | Filters | 20 | 20 | 50 | 200 | | Email digests | — | 4 | 20 | 100 | | Slack, Discord and Telegram bots, each | — | 4 | 20 | 100 | | Webhooks | — | 2 | 10 | 50 | | Team members | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | | Feed translation | — | — | yes | yes | | AI Brief preview credits per month | — | 5 | 5 | 5 | | REST API access | — | — | — | yes | | API feed-creation operations per month | — | — | — | 1,000 | | API rate limit | — | — | — | 1 request per second | The comparison table on https://rss.app/pricing carries the per-feature detail and the definitions behind each row — in particular, an API "operation" counts creating a new feed, not refreshing or reading one. ## Where to start - Sign up and create a feed: https://rss.app - Price and limits: https://rss.app/pricing - Every tool on one page: https://rss.app/tools - API reference: https://rss.app/docs/api - Articles and feed round-ups: https://rss.app/blog - Affiliate programme: https://rss.app/affiliates - Terms of service: https://rss.app/terms - Privacy policy: https://rss.app/privacy