How to Setup an RSS Feed to Auto-Post to your Social Media
This guide shows you how to use Nuelink's RSS automation to auto-import content from any RSS feed and share it to your social channels automatically. It works great for blogs, news sites, and even e-commerce or product feeds, anything that publishes an RSS feed. Once it's set up, Nuelink checks your feed regularly and posts new items for you.
Note: To follow this guide, you'll need a Nuelink account, at least one connected social channel, and the link to the RSS feed you want to import from.
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Step-by-Step Guide
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Go to Automations in the left sidebar.
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Click Create Automation at the top of the page to open the automation library.
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Find the RSS automation. You can see it under the Blogs tab and the eCommerce tab, or search for "RSS" in the search bar.
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Click Create Automation on the RSS card.
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In the Add RSS Automation window, paste your feed link into the Link or RSS Feed URL field. If you're not sure where to find it, click the How to find the RSS link? helper below the field.
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Set up your Post Caption. You can write your own caption using variables like {{title}} and {{link}}, or turn on AI captions to let Nuelink write a caption for each new post from a prompt.
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(Optional) Add a Post title and turn on Auto thread long captions if you want long text split into threads on supported platforms.
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(Optional) Turn on Auto thread long captions to automatically split long captions into a thread on platforms that support threading (like Threads, X, Bluesky, and Mastodon).
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Under Choose post format, pick how each feed item should be shared, as a Link Post or an Image Post.
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Decide how many posts to bring in. Keep importing existing feed items as well as the future ones to import past content, then set the Number of Posts to import. Turn it off to import only new items going forward.
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Choose how new posts are handled. Turn on Mark the posts as draft for later review if you want to check posts first.
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Turn on Publish immediately to send the latest post out right away and queue the rest.
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(Optional) Turn on Send a follow-up comment to automatically add a first comment, for example, "Read more: {{link}}", and set when it should be added.
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(Optional) Turn on Use smart conditions to only import posts that include or exclude certain keywords in their titles.
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Choose where your posts will live. Leave Create a new collection for this automation on to make a fresh collection, or turn it off to pick an existing one.
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(Optional) Open Advanced Options to turn on Auto-clean links (removes tracking parameters) or use a custom user agent.
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Click Add RSS Automation to save. Nuelink will start importing your posts; you'll see a "Processing" message while it works.
- Open the new collection and click the Settings tab to finish setting it up. The next section covers each setting in detail.
Your automation is now importing posts. Next, set up the collection so Nuelink knows where and when to publish them.
Set Up Your Collection
Every RSS automation feeds into a collection. The collection controls which channels your posts go to, when they publish, and whether they repeat. All posts in the collection use these settings by default, and you can still override any single post later.
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In the collection's Settings tab, give it a clear Collection Name and pick a Color code so it's easy to spot in your list.
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Under Default Social Channels, select every channel where these posts should go. If you post to Pinterest or YouTube, also choose a Pinterest Board and a YouTube Playlist.
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Set your Weekly Schedule. Pick the days under Select Days, choose a time under Pick Time, then click Add slots. Repeat to add as many posting slots as you like. New posts fill the next open slot automatically.
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(Optional) Turn on Recycle (published posts) (evergreen) to repeat your posts after a cooldown. Set the Cooldown (how long to wait before a post goes back in the queue) and the Repeat limit (how many times each post can repeat).
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Choose your Queue Behavior: Top of the queue to post new items sooner, Bottom of the queue to post them later, or Random to shuffle them into the schedule.
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(Optional) Open Advanced Options to pause posting from this collection anytime, or set a Timeframe limit with a start and end date for when the collection is active.
- Click Save Changes at the top of the page.
You're all set! Nuelink will now check your RSS feed automatically and post new items to these channels on the schedule you picked.
FAQs & Troubleshooting
How often does Nuelink check my RSS feed?
RSS automations run hourly, so Nuelink looks for new items in your feed every hour and adds them to your collection.
Can I use this for an online store?
Yes. The RSS automation appears under both the Blogs and eCommerce tabs, so you can use it for any feed, including product or store feeds that publish as RSS.
Will it import my old posts or only new ones?
That's your choice. Keep importing existing feed items as well as future ones to bring in past content, then set the number to import. Turn it off to only post items published from now on.
Can I review posts before they go live?
Yes. Turn on Mark the posts as draft for later review, and Nuelink will save new posts as drafts so you can check and approve them first.
Can I change the channels or schedule later?
Absolutely. Open the collection tied to your automation, go to the Settings tab, and update the Default Social Channels or Weekly Schedule anytime.
My RSS feed link isn't accepted.
Make sure you're using the actual feed URL (it usually ends in /feed or /rss), not the regular website address. Click How to find the RSS link? in the setup window for help locating it.
New posts aren't appearing on my channels.
Check that the automation's collection has Default Social Channels selected and a Weekly Schedule set in the Settings tab. Without channels and time slots, posts have nowhere to be published.
A source is blocking Nuelink from reading the feed.
Open Advanced Options in the automation settings and turn on Use a custom user agent, then enter a custom name (for example, NuelinkBot). This helps when a source blocks default crawlers.
My imported posts were all published at once.
When Publish immediately is on, only the latest post goes out right away, and the rest are queued. If timing matters, turn it off and let your collection's schedule space the posts out instead.