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Feedreader

Add an RSS/Atom feed reader that polls feeds every hour and sends new entries into the event bus.

To use RSS feeds in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
feedreader:
  urls:
    - https://www.home-assistant.io/atom.xml
    - https://github.com/blog.atom
    - https://hasspodcast.io/feed/podcast

Configuration Variables

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urls list Required

List of URLs for your feeds.

scan_interval time (Optional, default: 1 hour)

Defines the update interval of the feeds.

max_entries integer (Optional, default: 20)

The maximum number of entries to extract from each feed.

The following configuration example shows how to configure update interval and maximum number of entries:

# Example configuration.yaml entry with optional parameters
feedreader:
  urls:
    - https://www.home-assistant.io/atom.xml
    - https://github.com/blog.atom
    - https://hasspodcast.io/feed/podcast
  scan_interval:
    minutes: 30
  max_entries: 5

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"
    trigger:
      platform: event
      event_type: feedreader
    action:
      service: script.turn_on
      target:
        entity_id: script.my_action

automation:
  - alias: "Send notification of RSS feed title when updated"
    trigger:
      platform: event
      event_type: feedreader
      event_data:
        feed_url: "https://hasspodcast.io/feed/podcast"
    action:
      service: 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.

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 components, please refer to the developers documentation

For a drop in packaged complete example of Feedreader, you can use the PodCast notifier.