RSS Feed

Connect to any RSS or Atom feed to ingest news, blogs, and updates into your workflows.

How to set up RSS Feed

Authentication

Most RSS feeds are public and don’t require authentication. However, if you need to access protected feeds:

1. Add the RSS Feed integration in Cargo
2. Configure optional headers if authentication is required:
   • Public headers: Visible values
   • Secret headers: Encrypted values (API keys, tokens)

RSS Feed data models

Fetch RSS Feed

Pull items from any RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0, or Atom feed.

Required fields:

• Feed URL: The URL of the RSS or Atom feed

Features:

• Supports standard RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0, and Atom formats
• Minimum 30-minute sync interval
• Automatically parses feed structure

Example feed URLs:

https://techcrunch.com/feed/
https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml
https://www.lesechos.fr/rss/finance.xml

Feed item data

RSS feed items typically include:

Field	Description
title	Item title
link	URL to full article
description	Summary or excerpt
pubDate	Publication date
author	Author name
category	Content categories
guid	Unique identifier
content	Full content (if available)

Protected feeds

For feeds requiring authentication, configure headers:

API Key authentication:

Key: Authorization
Value: Bearer your-api-key
Type: Secret

Basic authentication:

Key: Authorization
Value: Basic base64(username:password)
Type: Secret

Best practices

• Use reliable, stable feed URLs
• Set appropriate sync intervals based on feed update frequency
• Filter items by date to process only new content
• Combine with entity extraction for company/topic matching
• Store feed GUIDs to avoid reprocessing
• Handle feed errors gracefully (feeds can be unreliable)

Use cases

• Sales triggers: Company announcements, funding news
• Competitive intel: Competitor blog and press monitoring
• Industry research: Track trends and developments
• Content curation: Aggregate relevant content
• Account monitoring: Follow target account news

Supported formats

Format	Description
RSS 2.0	Most common RSS format
RSS 1.0	Older RDF-based RSS format
Atom	Modern XML-based feed format