Integrate the RSS API with the Helper Functions API

Setup the RSS API trigger to run a workflow which integrates with the Helper Functions API. Pipedream's integration platform allows you to integrate RSS and Helper Functions remarkably fast. Free for developers.

Popular Ways to Connect RSS with Helper Functions#

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Popular RSS and Helper Functions Triggers#

New Item in Feed from the RSS API

Emit new items from an RSS feed

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New Item From Multiple RSS Feeds from the RSS API

Emit new items from multiple RSS feeds

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Random item from multiple RSS feeds from the RSS API

Emit a random item from multiple RSS feeds

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Popular RSS and Helper Functions Actions#

Base64 Decode String with the Helper Functions API

Accepts a base64-encoded string, returns a decoded UTF-8 string

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Merge RSS Feeds with the RSS API

Retrieve multiple RSS feeds and return a merged array of items sorted by date See documentation

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Get the difference, intersection, union, or symetric difference of two arrays/sets.

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Convert Currency with the Helper Functions API

Convert an amount between currencies. See the documentation

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Overview of RSS#

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 Helper Functions#

The Helper Functions app on Pipedream is a set of pre-built functions that streamline common tasks in your workflows. It acts like a Swiss Army knife for developers, providing essential tools such as format conversion, date manipulation, and text processing. By leveraging these functions, you can reduce the boilerplate code needed for routine operations, speeding up the development of intricate automations. The Helper Functions API can be a game changer when it comes to tasks like parsing dates in user-friendly formats, encoding and decoding data, or generating UUIDs, making them more efficient and less error-prone.