You can now see exactly what Feed Control does with your feeds behind the scenes. The new Event Logs screen records every webhook, Slack and Discord delivery, every scheduled feed check, every full-text extraction and every upload of your feed’s RSS, JSON or widget files.

Failed deliveries are also retried automatically, up to 3 times. You can turn on a daily email summarising failures from the same screen. Events are kept for 14 days.

Full details are in the event logs documentation.

This is a new feature, so any feedback appreciated. If something doesn’t look right, get in touch and we’ll be happy to help.

It's now possible to embed your Feed Control feeds on your own website.

This is a new feature, so any feedback appreciated. If things don't look right for your feed, get in touch and we'll be happy to help.

We've just rolled out several exciting updates to Feed Control to improve your experience and give you more control over your feeds.

We've redesigned Feed Control with a responsive interface that also allows us to implement new features more easily than before. This might still be rough around the edges, so please let us know if you experience any issues. For now you can still switch to the old UI, but we'll be phasing that out soon.

It's now possible to export the feeds you've added to your account in either CSV format or OPML. An OPML export will use the generated feed URLs (if you've enabled feed generation) or the source feed URLs if you haven't.

For feeds that have been set up with full-text expansion, it's now possible to manually trigger article extraction on existing feed items.

This can be useful in a number of different cases, for example:

You now have the ability to provide custom rules for feeds with full-text fetching enabled.

This advanced feature gives you greater control over how Feed Control extracts articles from specific websites.

To use this feature:

This is particularly useful for:

Use this to specify which element contains the main article content. Multiple statements accepted. Will evaluate in order until a result is found. If not specified or no match found, it will be auto-detected.

Strip any matching elements and their children. Multiple statements accepted.

Strip any element whose @id or @class contains this substring. Multiple statements accepted.

Strip any <img> element where @src attribute contains this substring. Multiple statements accepted.

Send additional HTTP headers for requests to this site. Only the following headers are accept:

One of our job queues encountered an issue earlier today, which caused some customers' feeds to fail to update properly with new items.

If you notice a lot of 'failed' status messages next to one of your feed's recent feed items, your feed was likely affected.

We've fixed the issue and new items should be processed okay. If you would like existing items that failed to be tried again, you can select those items showing as failed, and then delete them. After that, please select 'Refresh feed' on the feed actions drop down. This tells Feed Control to check the feed again and process new items.

Please let us know if you experience any trouble.

We’re pleased to announce annual billing for those who want to simplify their billing and enjoy added savings.

You can now pay once for the year and receive a 20% discount. That's more than 2 months free compared to the monthly rate.

No problem — when you switch to annual billing, your current monthly payment will be prorated and applied toward the cost of your annual plan. You’ll only pay the difference, and the transition is seamless.

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Switch to annual

We also fixed a bug that was causing the setup of our Slack integration to fail for new connection.

Thanks for using Feed Control and please let us know if you experience any issues. Whether it's related to these new changes or existing functionality.

We've fixed an issue which was causing some feeds to update later than the update frequency set.

If you still experience slow updates with any of your feeds, please let us know.

To see how often Feed Control checks your feed, and the last time it checked it, click on the feed from your list of feeds. On the first tab (Source) you'll find two rows:

is the update frequency you have set.

is the last time Feed Control checked your feed for new items. This should always show a time in line with your update frequency (unless you've just changed the update frequency, in which case it migh take a few minutes to update).

We've just rolled out two new features which we hope you'll find useful.

Our latest update introduces automatic item detection that's enabled by default. This AI-driven feature identifies relevant items and generates the appropriate selectors automatically.

Previously, users needed technical knowledge of HTML and CSS selectors to create feeds. Now, Feed Creator handles this complexity for you. When successful, it automatically configures the advanced selector settings based on what it finds.

While our testing shows excellent results across many websites, there may be cases where manual configuration is still needed – either when the AI cannot identify suitable selectors or selects unwanted items. In these situations, you can still set selectors manually as before.

Coming soon:

Our new headless browser feature lets you capture dynamically loaded items – perfect for modern websites that rely on JavaScript to display items.

To use this feature:

This solution now enables feed creation from previously unsupported sites that load items through API calls or other JavaScript-based methods.

We hope you enjoy these new features. Please let us know if you experience any issues or have suggestions for improvement – we'd love to hear how they're working for you!

Some recent updates to Feed Control...

Our new standard template now includes the featured image for each item. It's the default template for new feeds with feed generation enabled.

Plus plan users can now choose the SmartNews RSS template, for publishing on the SmartNews news platform. Business plan users can choose SmartNews, Flipboard or MSN News.

If you've enabled feed generation, you can now set the the number of items you'd like the feed to have. The default is 10. On the Plus plan you can increase this to 20. And on the Business plan to 50.

When you go to add a new feed, you'll now see that you can enter a Google News URL. That can be a topic, or a news search. See our blog post to get an idea of what kind of Google News feeds you can produce.

Feed Controll now tries a number of times to retrieve the full-text content for feed items (when full-text fetching is enabled). When full-text extraction fails, you'll see 'failed' in red in your item listing view. Failed items do not get added to the output feed.

The most common reason for a failed extraction is that the site either has its content marked up in a way that requires custom rules in Feed Control's extractor, or it's refusing Feed Control's requests for the content. If you'd like us to investigate failing extraction, please get in touch.

Feed Control will soon let you to choose a feed template when generating RSS feeds from your content. And podcast creation will be supported too.

Read more in our blog post.

We've now added a new feed output option: .

To enable this:

Next time your feed updates, images will be removed from the generated feed's item content. You can choose the 'Rebuild feed' action from the feed's actions menu to have the feed rebuilt with the new setting applied (although you might have to wait a minute or two for the generated feed to update).