The RSS app allows users to automatically fetch and parse updates from web feeds. This functionality is pivotal for staying abreast of content changes or updates from websites, blogs, and news outlets that offer RSS feeds. With Pipedream, you can harness the RSS API to trigger workflows that enable a broad range of automations, like content aggregation, monitoring for specific keywords, notifications, and data synchronization across platforms.

Connect RSS#

module.exports = defineComponent({
  props: {
    rss: {
      type: "app",
      app: "rss",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    // Retrieve items from a sample feed
    const Parser = require('rss-parser');
    const parser = new Parser();
    
    const stories = []
    
    // Replace with your feed URL
    const url = "https://pipedream.com/community/latest.rss"
    
    const feed = await parser.parseURL(url);
    const { title, items } = feed
    this.title = title
    
    if (!items.length) {
      $end("No new stories")
    }
    
    this.items = items
  },
})

Overview of Browse AI#

The Browse AI API enables the automation of data extraction from websites, turning web pages into organized data. It's built for non-coders and coders alike, allowing for custom web scraping and monitoring tasks. Within Pipedream, you can harness Browse AI to create intricate workflows that trigger actions in other apps based on the data you extract. Think of automated competitive analysis, price tracking, or content changes detection, all streamlined through Pipedream's serverless platform.

Connect Browse AI#

import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    browse_ai: {
      type: "app",
      app: "browse_ai",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    return await axios($, {
      url: `https://api.browse.ai/v2/robots`,
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Bearer ${this.browse_ai.$auth.api_key}`,
      },
    })
  },
})