{"id":240,"date":"2020-01-12T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialbu.com\/blogtest\/2020\/01\/12\/how-to-auto-post-from-rss-feeds-to-your-social-media\/"},"modified":"2023-03-08T11:48:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T06:48:59","slug":"auto-post-from-rss-feeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialbu.com\/blog\/auto-post-from-rss-feeds","title":{"rendered":"How To Auto Post From RSS Feeds To Your Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

RSS feeds (Rich Site Summary) are a format for delivering regularly changing web content. It allows users and applications to access updates to a website in a standardized, computer-readable format.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Almost all blogs offer their updates in the form of an RSS feed so their users can subscribe to the RSS feed and be updated whenever a new page or post is published. Many RSS-reader applications also do the same: they inform users about website updates by subscribing to the RSS feeds.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Posting updates to your social media about new website content is also very important. The old-school way to do this was manually posting the link to the new page, content, or blog post to your social media. It becomes extremely hard and time-consuming when you want to share content on your social media from multiple RSS feeds. The RSS feeds may or may not belong to your own blogs or websites.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Use SocialBu to Auto Post from RSS Feeds to Social Media<\/h2>\r\n

SocialBu Automation<\/a>\u00a0is useful if you want to auto-post from RSS to social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

First of all, create a new Automation from here<\/a>. You can name it however you like.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Select the event “RSS feed has a new item,” as shown in the image below.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Event: RSS feed has a new item<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

After selecting the event, you will see its inputs. Enter the RSS feed URL. We will use https:\/\/www.socialmediaexaminer.com\/feed\/<\/em> as an example.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Entering the RSS feed URL<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Now, you need to specify the actions. For publishing posts, you have two options. We will use the first one in this example.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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  1. Publish a Post (publishes the post right away)<\/li>\r\n
  2. Add Post to Queue (saves the post to a custom Queue <\/a>which you can create)<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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    \"Multiple\r\n
    Multiple actions are available<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    You will also need to select the social media accounts on the post that should be published.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    The post contents need to be set, and you can add any text you want to be published. We can use dynamic data placeholders to use the RSS content in the post text. These placeholder tags will be replaced with actual content from the RSS feed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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    \"Data\r\n
    Data Placeholders<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    To use the title and link in the post text, we can use the data placeholders {{ title }}<\/em> and {{ link }}<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    The post content looks like the following in our example.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    {{ title }} {{ link<\/span> }}\r\n<\/pre>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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    \"Post\r\n
    Post Content (for RSS feed item)<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
    That’s all.<\/p>\r\n
    Save this Automation, and SocialBu will post content from the RSS feed whenever there is a new update\/blog post\/item.<\/p>\r\n
    Additionally, UX designer developers<\/a> must ensure seamless automation that doesn’t compromise user experience by testing and refining the automated posting process<\/span>. So it saves time and resources while delivering engaging content.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
    Some Things to Remember\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n