Data & Storage · Integration
RSS
Add RSS to your product for your customers, and give your AI agents governed access to it.
RSS is a feed format rather than a vendor you sign up with, so there is no account to authorise here. What each customer supplies is their own list of feed URLs, plus credentials if a feed sits behind basic auth or a token, and this connector reads the items those feeds publish: title, link, publication date, author, categories, summary or full content, and enclosures where a feed carries media. Feeds vary more than the name suggests, because RSS and Atom differ, and publishers add their own namespaced elements, so which fields exist is per feed and mapped as configuration rather than assumed. There are no webhooks in the format, so polling is paced with conditional requests and items are deduplicated by their identifier so a republished entry is not delivered twice. fastn owns the fetching, throttling, parsing and per-tenant isolation.
In your product
Embedded for your customers. Per-tenant auth, no per-customer code, maintained by fastn.
Let each customer supply their own feed URLs so the sources they care about are readable inside your product with no per-customer code.
Normalise RSS and Atom into one item shape so your product does not branch on which format a publisher chose.
Poll on a schedule with conditional requests and deduplication, so new items arrive without hammering a publisher or repeating an entry.
Map the extra namespaced elements a particular feed carries, per customer, instead of shipping a release for each new source.
For your AI agents
Governed, audited access for the agents you build, through the MCP server.
An agent reads the newest items across a customer's feeds and drafts a briefing grounded in what was actually published.
An agent watches a feed for a matching item and starts the next step in your workflow, with the read logged per tenant.
An agent follows an item's link and summarises it, staying inside the sources that customer configured.
Example prompt
Summarise the items published across our RSS feeds since yesterday and group them by source.
Set up RSS in 4 steps
- 01Enable the RSS connector in your fastn dashboard.
- 02Have each customer supply their own feed URLs, plus any credentials a private feed needs, since there is no RSS account to authorise.
- 03Map the item fields your product uses, including any namespaced elements a given feed adds, and set the polling interval.
- 04Call it from your product and expose the same connection to your agents through the MCP gateway.
Why teams use the RSS integration
What you get by embedding it with fastn instead of building it yourself.
- Ship an RSS integration without building it. Your customers point it at their own endpoint and credentials and work their records, datasets and fields through it, with no per-customer code on your side.
- Handle the part that actually costs time: schemas differ per customer and change without notice, and volumes can be large. fastn owns the auth, token refresh, rate limits, pagination and breaking-change fixes, so an RSS update is not your on-call problem.
- One integration serves your product and your agents. The same governed RSS connection powers in-product features and gives AI agents scoped, audited access, so you read and write your customers' data where it already lives without wiring it twice.
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How do I add an RSS integration to my product?
Enable the RSS connector in your fastn dashboard, then let each customer authenticate their own RSS account. fastn handles the OAuth flow, token storage and refresh per tenant, so there is no RSS client code in your app and no per-customer branch in your codebase. Setup is 4 steps.
How is an RSS connection configured per customer?
RSS is a specification rather than a service you sign up for, so there is no RSS account. Each customer supplies their own endpoint and credentials, and that connection is scoped to them, so they only ever reach their own records, datasets and fields. The per-tenant isolation works the same way it does for a vendor product.
Can AI agents use this RSS integration?
Yes. The same connection is exposed to your agents through the fastn MCP gateway, with permissions scoped per tenant and every call audited. An agent reads the newest items across a customer's feeds and drafts a briefing grounded in what was actually published.
Who maintains the RSS integration?
fastn does. When RSS changes an endpoint, deprecates a field or alters its auth, the fix lands in the connector rather than in your backlog, and your customers' connections keep working.
Does the RSS integration adapt when a customer's schema changes?
Schema and field mapping is configuration per customer, so a change on their side is a mapping update rather than a code change and a release on yours.
How are large RSS reads handled?
Pagination and throttling are handled for you, and initial backfills are rate-limited so a large import does not exhaust a customer's API allowance.
What can I build with the RSS integration?
A common starting point: let each customer supply their own feed URLs so the sources they care about are readable inside your product with no per-customer code. Teams also use it for the other use cases listed above, and expose it to agents for governed reads and writes.
How much does the RSS integration cost?
It is included. Pricing is based on connected accounts, not on how many connectors you enable, so adding RSS does not change your per-connector cost. You can start free with 3 connected accounts.
Add RSS to your product
Start free with 3 connected accounts. No sales call required, and no per-customer integration code.