Integrate the RSS API with the Segment API

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

Popular Ways to Connect RSS with Segment#

Associate an identified user with a group with Segment API on New Item in Feed from RSS API

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Associate one identity with another with Segment API on New Item in Feed from RSS API

RSS + Segment

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Identify a user, tie them to their actions and record traits about them with Segment API on New Item in Feed from RSS API

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Record page views on your website with Segment API on New Item in Feed from RSS API

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Record whenever a user sees a screen with Segment API on New Item in Feed from RSS API

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Popular RSS and Segment 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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Webhook Destination (Instant) from the Segment API

Send events to a webhook

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Popular RSS and Segment Actions#

Associate an identified user with a group with the Segment API

Group lets you associate an identified user with a group (note requires userId or anonymousId). See the docs here

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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 docs

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Associate one identity with another with the Segment API

Alias is how you associate one identity with another. See the docs here

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Identify a user, tie them to their actions and record traits about them with the Segment API

identify lets you tie a user to their actions and record traits about them. It includes a unique User ID and any optional traits you know about them (note requires userId or anonymousId). See the docs here

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Record page views on your website with the Segment API

The page method lets you record page views on your website, along with optional extra information about the page being viewed (note requires userId or anonymousId). See the docs here

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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#

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 Segment#

You can do a lot of amazing things with Segment's API. Segment's API enables
you to collect and connect customer data quickly and easily. With it, you can
power your analytics, marketing, and data warehousing requirements, and improve
your customer experience and performance.

The Segment API provides you with full control over your customer data,
including file storage, ETL, data modeling, data enrichment and
transformations, and data queries. With it, you can build powerful solutions
that help you uncover useful customer insights in real-time. Here are a few
examples of what you can do using the Segment API:

Collect and store customer data from multiple sources: You can collect
customer data from multiple sources such as web traffic, mobile and web apps,
ecommerce stores, CRMs, and marketing automation platforms.
Build custom data models to gain deeper insights into customer behavior: With
the Segment API, you can build custom models that organize customer data into
meaningful categories to gain deeper consumer insights.
Automatically enrich customer data with 3rd party APIs: The Segment API
allows you to automatically map, enrich, and clean customer data, creating a
single source of truth for better segmentation and decision making.
Analyze customer data in real-time for better decision making: With the
Segment API, you can monitor customer data in real-time, uncovering patterns
and creating reports in a few clicks.
Automate data pipelines to quickly and easily access data: You can quickly
and easily create data pipelines with the Segment API, and get accurate data
delivered on demand.
Connect customer data to over 250 cloud services: With the Segment API, you
can quickly and easily connect customer data to over 250 cloud services and
systems, such as analytics, marketing automation platforms, CRMs, and data
warehouses.

Connect Segment#

import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    segment: {
      type: "app",
      app: "segment",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    const data = {
      "event": `PipedreamTestOrder`,
      "anonymousId": `019mr8mf4r`,
    }
    return await axios($, {
      method: "post",
      url: `https://api.segment.io/v1/track`,
      headers: {
        "Content-Type": `application/json`,
      },
      auth: {
        username: `${this.segment.$auth.write_key}`,
        password: ``,
      },
      data,
    })
  },
})