Understanding the RSS Feed Trigger – how to access the raw XML?

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Hi!

I’m just getting started with n8n and thought building a workflow for parsing my blog’s RSS and post on social media would be simple enough for a first small project. But I stumble already on the RSS Feed Trigger. :slight_smile:

I my feed, each <entry> have a <posttype> and a <lang> which I would like to make some decisions based on in my workflow. But these doesn’t seem to be available as variables? Should I use some other node?

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Hey!

We just chatted on Mastodon about this - here’s a little workflow to get you started with this:

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Thanks a lot! This provided me with a much better starting point than I had created together with ChatGPT! :slight_smile:

I guess adding a data storage like Supabase would be a good addition to avoid duplicates between runs?

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Oh! Remove Duplicates is actually stateful between runs!

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Yep, that’s a fairly recent addition but a real life-saver for scenarios like this!

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