RSS Read

Description

The RSS Read node downloads an RSS 2.0 or Atom feed from a URL and returns its items as an array with a normalized structure. It is useful for monitoring a blog’s updates, aggregating news, triggering actions on new posts, or feeding other nodes with external content.

It is equivalent to n8n’s RSS Read node.

The node automatically detects the feed type (<rss><channel> for RSS 2.0 or <feed> for Atom) and unifies both formats into the same item shape, so the rest of the workflow does not need to know which type the original feed was.

Configuration

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
url	text	Yes	RSS/Atom feed URL. Supports dynamic variables
limit	number	No	Max items to return. 0 (default) = all
timeout	number	No	Maximum request wait time in milliseconds. Defaults to 15000

Output

The node returns a normalized array of items directly:

[
  {
    "title": "August updates",
    "link": "https://example.com/august-updates",
    "pubDate": "Mon, 04 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT",
    "content": "<p>Article content…</p>",
    "guid": "https://example.com/august-updates",
    "author": "Editorial",
    "categories": ["news", "product"]
  }
]

Each item includes the fields title, link, pubDate, content, guid, author, and categories (array). In Atom feeds, pubDate comes from updated/published, content from content/summary, and link from the alternate link.

Usage Examples

Read the latest 5 articles of a blog

{
  "label": "Latest news",
  "url": "https://example.com/feed.xml",
  "limit": "5"
}

Returns the first 5 items of the feed.

Read a feed whose URL comes from a previous node

{
  "label": "Dynamic feed",
  "url": "{{data.feed_url}}",
  "limit": "0",
  "timeout": "20000"
}

Resolves the URL from data and returns all items, with a 20-second timeout.

Notes

• If the URL is missing, or the content is not a valid RSS or Atom feed, the node returns a descriptive error
• The resulting array can be iterated with an Iterator node or narrowed with Limit / Remove Duplicates
• The url field supports dynamic and cross-node variables: {{data.field}}, {{@NodeName.field}}
• The node identifies itself with the User-Agent Floogos-RSS/1.0
• Does not require credentials