RSS/JSON Feed

Sends a notification when a new item appears in an external feed.

Unlike other event types, RSS/JSON Feed isn't tied to specific Craft elements. Instead, Notifier will poll the feed and send a message every time a new item shows up.

The format will be automatically detected when the feed is parsed. Notifier will sync with the feed, and fire notifications for any new items which appear after the schedule has been set up. Pre-existing feed items will be ignored.

Set up Scheduled Sending

Before this trigger will fire, you will need to run the schedule on a recurring basis.

Feed Timeout

If watching a slow feed, you can raise the Feed Timeout value (defaults to 10 seconds).

Maximum timeout value cannot exceed 60 seconds.

Identifying unique items

Each feed item is tracked by its canonical identifier:

• RSS: <guid>
• Atom: <id>
• JSON Feed: id

If no unique ID is provided by the feed, the item's URL (<link> / url) will be used instead.

Expected behavior

• An item whose identifier (correctly) never changes will fire exactly once, no matter how often the schedule is run.
• An item whose identifier (incorrectly) changes between runs will be fired every time the identifier changes.
• Items with no identifier or URL will be skipped.

Twig variables

All feed data is exposed through the feed and item Twig variables.

See the RSS/JSON Feed variables for the full reference and examples.