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Feed integrations

Restriction: This feature is available only in Premium groups, Enterprise groups, and legacy Free groups.

About feed integrations

Feed integrations allow you to post items from RSS feeds to your group. For example, if a blog is associated with your group, you can add a feed integration to have new blog posts sent to your group automatically.

Note:

  • Groups.io polls RSS feeds every 30 minutes, at 5 minutes after and 35 minutes after the hour.
  • You can add RSS feeds from other Groups.io groups if those groups have public archives. In such a group, the RSS feed link is in the Group Information section on the group’s home page.

Adding a feed integration

  1. Desktop browser: In the left menu on the group’s website, select Admin > Preferences > Integrations.
    Mobile device: At the bottom of a group page, tap the More icon, then select Admin > Preferences > Integrations on the More menu.
  2. On the Integrations page, in the Feed Integration panel, click or tap the Feed Subscription button. The Add Feed Integration page appears.
  3. Complete the Add Feed Integration page:
    • Feed URL: Enter the URL of the RSS feed.
    • Hashtags: Enter any hashtags (up to five) that you want to apply to the subject lines of the feed posts that are emailed to the group. A #feed hashtag is provided by default.
    • Moderate: Select this checkbox if you want to moderate the feed posts that are emailed to the group.
  4. Click or tap the Add button at the bottom of the page. Groups.io verifies the feed and adds it to the Your Feeds page.

  1. Desktop browser: In the left menu on the group’s website, select Admin > Preferences > Integrations.
    Mobile device: At the bottom of a group page, tap the More icon, then select Admin > Preferences > Integrations on the More menu.
  2. On the Integrations page, in the Feed Integration Active panel, click or tap the Edit Feed Subscriptions button. The Integrations page refreshes and lists the existing integrations under Your Feeds.
  3. Click or tap the Add a Feed button to display the Add Feed Integration page.
  4. Complete the Add Feed Integration page:
    • Feed URL: Enter the URL of the RSS feed.
    • Hashtags: Enter any hashtags (up to five) that you want to apply to the subject lines of the feed posts that are emailed to the group. A #feed hashtag is provided by default.
    • Moderate: Select this checkbox if you want to moderate the feed posts that are emailed to the group.
  5. Click or tap the Add button at the bottom of the page. Groups.io verifies the feed and adds it to the Your Feeds page.

Note: When you add the RSS feed of a Groups.io group that has a public archive, the group’s title is listed on the Your Feeds page. If the group has not specified a title, the group’s URL is listed. You can change that title by modifying the feed's integration (see below).

Modifying a feed integration

  1. Desktop browser: In the left menu on the group’s website, select Admin > Preferences > Integrations.
    Mobile device: At the bottom of a group page, tap the More icon, then select Admin > Preferences > Integrations on the More menu.
  2. On the Integrations page, in the Feed Integration Active panel, click or tap the Edit Feed Subscriptions button. The Integrations page refreshes and lists the existing integrations under Your Feeds.
  3. Click or tap the link in the Title column for the feed integration you want to modify. The Update Feed Integration page appears.
  4. As desired, modify the elements of the feed integration.
    Note: You cannot change the feed’s URL on this page. If you need to change the URL, you must delete this feed integration and add a new one with the revised URL.
  5. Click or tap the Update button at the bottom of the page. Groups.io updates the feed integration and returns to the Integrations page.

Deleting a feed integration

  1. Desktop browser: In the left menu on the group’s website, select Admin > Preferences > Integrations.
    Mobile device: At the bottom of a group page, tap the More icon, then select Admin > Preferences > Integrations on the More menu.
  2. On the Integrations page, in the Feed Integration Active panel, click or tap the Edit Feed Subscriptions button. The Integrations page refreshes and lists the existing integrations under Your Feeds.
  3. Select the checkbox for the feed integration you want to delete. You can select more than one if you want to delete multiple feed integrations.
  4. Click or tap the Delete Feeds button at the bottom of the page.
  5. When the Verify Delete confirmation popup appears, click or tap Yes. The feed integration is removed from the Integrations page.