RSS

RSS is a popular web syndication format used to publish frequently updated content – like blog entries and news headlines. Many content publishers provide an RSS feed to allow users to subscribe to it. Use the RSS connector to retrieve feed information and trigger flows when new items are published in an RSS feed.

This connector is available in the following products and regions:

Service Class Regions
Logic Apps Standard All Logic Apps regions except the following:
     -   US Department of Defense (DoD)
Power Automate Standard All Power Automate regions
Power Apps Standard All Power Apps regions
Connector Metadata
Publisher Microsoft

Known Issues and Limitations

  • Trigger polling logic is based on feed item pubDate field. Each new feed item should have pubDate timestamp greater (not equal) than previous ones, otherwise the trigger won`t be able to distinct new and old entries and new feed items may be skipped.

General Limits

Name Value
Maximum content length (in MB) 5
Minimum polling interval of the RSS trigger (in seconds) 1800

Throttling Limits

Name Calls Renewal Period
API calls per connection 100 60 seconds

Actions

List all RSS feed items

This operation retrieves all items from an RSS feed.

List all RSS feed items

This operation retrieves all items from an RSS feed.

Parameters

Name Key Required Type Description
The RSS feed URL
feedUrl True string

The RSS feed URL (Example: http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss).

since
since string

The date since when RSS feed should be retrieved (Example: 2018-12-29 10:24:05Z).

Chosen property will be used to determine which items are new.
sinceProperty string

Chosen property will be used for trigger state.

Returns

Triggers

When a feed item is published

This operation triggers a workflow when a new item is published in an RSS feed.

When a feed item is published

This operation triggers a workflow when a new item is published in an RSS feed.

Parameters

Name Key Required Type Description
The RSS feed URL
feedUrl True string

The RSS feed URL (Example: http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss).

Chosen property will be used to determine which items are new.
sinceProperty string

Chosen property will be used for trigger state.

Returns

Represents a wrapper object for batch trigger response

Definitions

TriggerBatchResponse[FeedItem]

Represents a wrapper object for batch trigger response

Name Path Type Description
value
value array of FeedItem

A list of the response objects

FeedItem

Represents an RSS feed item.

Name Path Type Description
Feed ID
id string

Feed ID

Feed title
title string

Feed title

Primary feed link
primaryLink string

Primary feed link

Feed links
links array of string

Feed links

Feed updated on
updatedOn string

Feed updated on

Feed published on
publishDate string

Feed published date

Feed summary
summary string

Feed item summary

Feed copyright information
copyright string

Copyright information

Feed categories
categories array of string

Feed item categories