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Importing via RSS feeds

Connect RSS feeds to import content automatically

Metrics for News and Source Matters can import content from RSS feeds you provide - visit the Manage RSS Feeds page. This feed importing approach is optional but is an easy way to connect to your content if it's available and includes the content you want to track.
 
Note: If RSS feeds are not available for content you want to track, please review the other options available in the Custom Imports feature.
 

Feed Limits or Parameters

Every day, Metrics for News and Source Matters check each RSS feed in your account for new stories to import. This process considers stories published in the past three (3) days only and will not import stories included in the feed that were published later. These limits should be considered when saving an RSS feed to your account.
 
Usually, feeds are set up with their own limitations. For example, they may curate up to a certain number of stories or go back a specific number of days. If this is the case for your feeds, we recommend adjusting its configuration to ensure they include stories published within the most seven (7) days.
 
During onboarding or upon occasional request, we are able to import stories within a longer date range or, historically, back in time from a specific date. Please contact your Metrics for News representative for more information about conducting this type of import.
 

Feed Contents

The RSS feeds must include the following required fields for each piece of content:
  • URL (the single identifiable link to the content, with no extra parameters or subdomains)
  • Headline
  • Publish date

And highly recommended to also include:
  • Authors (as they appear in their bylines on your website)
  • GUID (tag used for the unique ID or Canonical URL of the article)
  • GUID prefix: If the GUID provided in the GUID field includes a prefix to the ID, the prefix needs to be ignored. Add the prefix here so the system knows what to ignore. 
  • Summary excerpt
  • Full text

The fields are not required to follow any specific naming convention but must be consistent for all stories included. For example, for the publish date column, you can use mm/dd/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy, whichever is best for you. Every date in this column must follow the same format. Another example: you can use a comma in numerical values (12,455); but be sure the comma format is used for all numbers.  

On the RSS Feed form, you will need to specify the name of each of these fields as they're labeled in your feed.

Additional options are available on the RSS Feed form to ignore stories from certain authors or that have a specific text phrase, such as a category name.

Maintenance for RSS Feeds

For RSS feeds that are defunct or expired, or were one-time imports only, we ask that you delete these from the system once you no longer need them.