About
The MediaRSS plugin shows ready-made content from content providers, like ScreenFeed and many others, on your screens. Subscribe to their feeds, and your screens stay fresh without extra work.
Check out all RSS plugins.
Get Started
Before adding the MediaRSS plugin you’ll need to find your MediaRSS feed URL.
Add a MediaRSS feed to a slide
- Go to RSS -> MediaRSS
- Add your feed URL
- Adjust your transition, transition duration, etc.
Keep in mind that the app you use to generate your MediaRSS feed has many customization options. Once the plugin has been added and published, your screens update automatically when you change the settings and design there.
Options
Alignment and Cropping
- Fit to canvas - Maximize the image to fit the canvas
- Align Left - Align the image to the left
- Align Center - Align the image to the center
- Align Right - Align the image to the right
- Align Top - Align the image to the top
- Align Center - Align the image to the center
- Align Bottom - Align the image to the bottom
- Locking Objects - Lock images
Media RSS feed URL
Input your Media RSS URL.
Transition
Set the incoming transition effect for new entries.
Transition Duration
Set the transition duration in seconds
Refresh Interval
Pick how often the content should refresh in minutes.
Position
Adjust the positioning of the plugin pixel-by-pixel
Sizing
Adjust the size of the plugin pixel by pixel.
Third-Party Integrations
Typically, you purchase a feed from the content provider, and then you paste the feed URL into our Media RSS plugin.
You can find a list of content providers here:
https://www.sixteen-nine.net/2015/12/01/content-subscription-options-feeding-digital-signage-beast/
You’ll find feeds covering many topics, such as:
- Social feeds (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram)
- News
- Infotainment (Trivia / Clips / On This Day / Quotes, etc…)
- Weather
- Sports
- Financial (Stocks)
- Local Traffic
- …and many more
Social Media
News
Keep your customers up-to-date with what’s going on in the world!
- https://www.datacalltech.com/
- https://www.screenfeed.com/browse-apps
- http://www.digichief.com/news-headlines-data
Infotainment
- https://www.screenfeed.com/infotainment
- https://www.datacalltech.com/
- https://www.seenspire.com/#features (Via website plugin)
- http://www.digichief.com/infotainment-data/
Weather
While we do provide a native weather plugin, perhaps you’d like something more exotic!
- https://www.datacalltech.com/
- https://www.screenfeed.com/apps/weather-graphics
- http://www.digichief.com/weather-data/
Sports
Live sports scores & news from global and local events!
- https://www.datacalltech.com/
- https://www.screenfeed.com/browse-apps
- http://www.digichief.com/sports-data/
Financial
How is your corporation doing today?
- https://www.screenfeed.com/apps/company-stocks
- https://www.datacalltech.com/
- https://www.digichief.com/stocks-data
Traffic
FAQ
My feed is not loading
Keep in mind that MediaRSS is not the same as RSS and HTML. Read more about what MediaRSS is and how it’s used.
We can’t always determine whether the URL you’re using is valid, but we do our best. When you insert the URL, our validator will check several parameters. If the URL fails, you should see one of the following messages.
- “Not found” means the validator didn’t get anything in return when trying the URL.
- “No RSS found on page, is this RSS feed?” means the validator found a feed, but none of it was classified as MediaRSS or even RSS.
- “Returned feed did not contain channel items or media. Content looks like a regular RSS feed.” means the validator found the feed, but the feed is not a MediaRSS feed, just a regular RSS feed.
What is the difference between the RSS feed and the Media RSS feed?
Both are XML-formatted data structures, and both can contain images, so differentiating them can be confusing. Generally, news sites and blogs publish an RSS feed, whereas paid content for digital signage is mostly MediaRSS.
RSS was not originally designed to contain media (images, videos), so there is no standard location for the image element in XML. From testing many feeds, we have found 6 different places where the image tag can be, and it may not be there at all. If the media is present, it’s typically a thumbnail, meant to complement the text rather than be shown as full screen. MediaRSS was designed to address the shortcomings of RSS and each <item> contains the media inside a <media:content> tag, so it’s always in one place, and the media item is the core of the content (rather than a complementing thumbnail as in RSS). The second big difference is that the media items inside MRSS contain a duration, so the feed itself defines how long the items are shown.
