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 Search API#

The Search API API allows you to create and manage a search engine for your website or application, providing robust search capabilities like full-text search, faceting, filtering, and autocomplete. Integrating this API into Pipedream workflows unleashes the potential for automating content indexing, performing complex searches based on triggers, and synchronizing search results with other apps for analytics, monitoring, or further processing.

Connect Search API#

import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    search_api: {
      type: "app",
      app: "search_api",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    return await axios($, {
      url: `https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search`,
      params: {
        "q": `{{your_query}}`,  //string to use as search query
        engine: `{{your_engine}}`, //ex. "google"
        api_key: `${this.search_api.$auth.api_key}`,
      },
    })
  },
})