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Requires Basic. Up to 10 feeds per server. See how notifications work for the shared rules.
RSS is the catch-all. If a site publishes a feed, Vetox can announce it — blogs, changelogs, news sites, forum sections, release notes.

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Adding a feed

Paste the feed URL. Vetox fetches and parses it before saving; anything that is not a readable feed is rejected with Invalid RSS feed URL or unable to parse feed.
Use the feed URL, not the site URL. It usually ends in /feed, /rss, /atom.xml or /index.xml. If you are unsure, view the page source and look for a application/rss+xml link.

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Settings

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Variables

How much text {item.description} carries is entirely up to the publisher. Some feeds give a one-line summary, others the full article. Vetox does not truncate it, but Discord’s 4,096-character description limit applies.

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What is announced

Checked every 5 minutes with a 5-minute cooldown per feed.
RSS has no per-poll cap. The other platforms look at their 5 most recent items; RSS considers every item in the feed as a candidate.In practice the 2-hour age cutoff and the 7-day seen-list keep this under control. But a feed that suddenly republishes many items with fresh dates can produce a burst of announcements.
Items with no readable publish date bypass the 2-hour age cutoff. A poorly-formed feed can therefore announce older items. If a feed does this repeatedly, it is a defect in the feed, not in Vetox.
Vetox uses conditional requests, so a feed that has not changed costs almost nothing to check.

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Real-world examples

Many studios publish a changelog feed. This is often better than the Steam integration because it carries only official posts.
Most status pages expose a feed. Route it to your staff channel for early warning of an outage affecting your community.
{item.title} as the embed title, {item.description} as the body, {item.url} as the link.

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Troubleshooting

Vetox must be able to fetch and parse it right then. Check the URL in a browser — if it renders as a web page rather than XML, it is not the feed URL.
The feed does not provide usable publish dates, so the age cutoff cannot apply.
The publisher re-dated multiple items. There is no rate limit beyond the per-feed cooldown.
That feed does not include one. Use {item.title} and {item.url} instead.

Podcasts

A specialised view of the same feed machinery.