RSS
Real Simple Syndication
Integrate the RSS API with the Reddit API
Setup the RSS API trigger to run a workflow which integrates with the Reddit API. Pipedream's integration platform allows you to integrate RSS and Reddit remarkably fast. Free for developers.
Popular RSS and Reddit Triggers#
Popular RSS and Reddit Actions#
List Subreddits by Query with the Reddit API
List subreddits based on a search criteria. See the docs here
Overview of RSS#
With the RSS API you have the power to create powerful tools and applications.
RSS is a great way to reliably subscribe to, track and build around your
favorite content sources. Here are some examples of things you can create
using the RSS API:
- A personal news website to syndicate articles from multiple sources.
- A custom feed reader to deliver timely notifications of updates and news.
- A live editorial dashboard to track news, trends and public sentiment.
- An automated “report bot” to aggregate and report on news topics.
- A competitor tracking tool to stay on top of industry news.
- A custom RSS-based search engine or RSS-supported deep learning engine.
- A live events feed to notify users and followers of new developments.
Connect RSS#
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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 Reddit#
- You could build a tool that monitors specific subreddits and notifies you
when new posts match certain criteria. - You could build a tool that analyzes the posts and comments in a given
subreddit to generate statistics or visualizations about the topic. - You could build a bot that automatically posts or comments in response to
certain keywords or phrases. - You could build a tool that helps manage your Reddit account by automating
tasks like posting, messaging, or voting. - You could build a tool that extracts data from Reddit posts and comments for
use in other applications.
Connect Reddit#
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import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
props: {
reddit: {
type: "app",
app: "reddit",
}
},
async run({steps, $}) {
return await axios($, {
url: `https://oauth.reddit.com/api/v1/me`,
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${this.reddit.$auth.oauth_access_token}`,
"User-Agent": `pipedream:v0.0.1 (by /u/pipedream-oauth)`,
},
})
},
})
Community Posts#
Building a Reddit Workflow with Pipedream
Almost four years ago I blogged about a demo I built using Reddit's API. The demo was a multi-user application that made use of Mongo for persistence and Passport.js for user authentication. You would login, select subreddit's to subscribe to, and then once a day it would email you the new posts from that subreddit. This was built in a "traditional" Node.js style with a server running full time to process requests. I thought it would be fun to build this again (although slightly different) using Pipedream's support for working with the Reddit API. I built two different versions of a simple workflow I'd like to share below.
Updating my Reddit Workflow with Pipedream
Back almost exactly a month ago, I blogged about using Pipedream to build a Reddit email report. The idea was that I wanted a daily email of posts from my subscribed subreddits for the past 24 hours of content. The implementation was a bit complex. I used one workflow to handle "get a days worth of content from subreddit" as a general "API" and another workflow connected to my authentication. It handles getting my subscriptions, hitting the API, and then generating the email. This worked well, but after a while of actually getting the email, I noticed some problems. So I decided to fix that.