RSS
Real Simple Syndication
Integrate the RSS API with the Mandrill API
Setup the RSS API trigger to run a workflow which integrates with the Mandrill API. Pipedream's integration platform allows you to integrate RSS and Mandrill remarkably fast. Free for developers.
Popular RSS and Mandrill Actions#
Send an email using Mandrill. See API docs here: https://mandrillapp.com/api/docs/messages.curl.html#method=send
Retrieve multiple RSS feeds and return a merged array of items sorted by date See documentation
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 Mandrill#
Mandrill, a transactional email API for Mailchimp, empowers developers to easily send personalized, one-to-one e-commerce emails, or automated transactional emails. With Pipedream, you can harness Mandrill's capabilities to create powerful automations that trigger on various events, like updating databases on email delivery, syncing with CRM systems when users interact with your emails, or even conducting sentiment analysis on email content for customer support insights.
Connect Mandrill#
import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
props: {
mandrill: {
type: "app",
app: "mandrill",
}
},
async run({steps, $}) {
return await axios($, {
url: `https://mandrillapp.com/api/1.0/messages/send.json`,
data: {
key: this.mandrill.$auth.api_key,
message: {
html: params.html,
text: params.text,
subject: params.subject,
from_email: params.from_email,
from_name: params.from_name,
to: [{
email: params.email,
name: params.name,
type: params.type || "to",
}]
}
}
})
},
})