Feedreader
Add an RSS/Atom feed reader that polls feeds every hour and sends new entries into the event bus.
Configuration
To add the Feedreader integration to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:
Manual configuration steps
If the above My button doesn’t work, you can also perform the following steps manually:
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Browse to your Home Assistant instance.
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In the bottom right corner, select the
Add Integration button. -
From the list, select Feedreader.
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Follow the instructions on screen to complete the setup.
Usage
Feedreader events can be used out of the box to trigger automation actions, e.g.:
automation:
- alias: "Trigger action when new element(s) in RSS feed"
triggers:
- trigger: event
event_type: feedreader
actions:
- action: script.turn_on
target:
entity_id: script.my_action
automation:
- alias: "Send notification of RSS feed title when updated"
triggers:
- trigger: event
event_type: feedreader
event_data:
feed_url: "https://hasspodcast.io/feed/podcast"
actions:
- action: persistent_notification.create
data:
title: "New HA Podcast available"
message: "New Podcast available - {{ as_timestamp(now()) | timestamp_custom('%I:%M:%S %p %d%b%Y', true) }}"
notification_id: "{{ trigger.event.data.title }}"
Any field under the <entry>
tag in the feed can be used for example trigger.event.data.content
will get the body of the feed entry.
Event
An event entity will be created for each configured feed which always represents the latest entry of the feed.
Video tutorial
This video tutorial explains how to set up the feedreader and show the latest news feed item on your dashboard in Home Assistant.
For more advanced use cases, a custom integration registering to the feedreader
event type could be used instead:
EVENT_FEEDREADER = "feedreader"
hass.bus.listen(EVENT_FEEDREADER, event_listener)
To get started developing custom integrations, please refer to the developers documentation
For a drop in packaged complete example of Feedreader, you can use the PodCast notifier