RSS Reader

Convenience functionality to help you find an RSS feed. If you can’t find the feed using our search, try using Google or contact the desired website maintainers and ask for an RSS feed URL.

An address to the RSS feed (We also support atom feeds).

Select a font (you can upload your own font).

The alignment applies to the text inside the plugin. We default to justify-content; however, depending on how long the text is and the size of the area, other options might also work well.

Specifies for how long a feed entry is shown.

As the plugin supports RSS standards, it can receive data in any format. Some sites generate feeds with long text descriptions, whereas others only include a few sentences. With the font zoom option, you can customize how much the plugin enlarges the text to better fit your defined area.

If enabled, the plugin will show how long ago the feed entry was published.

The locale for showing time ago.

Set the incoming transition effect for new entries.

• Normal – text on the left, the image on the right (landscape) / image on top, text on the bottom (portrait)
• Reverse – image on the left, text on the right (landscape) / text on top, the image at the bottom (portrait)
• Alternate – alternates between normal and reverse layout for feed entries.

The RSS feed search is a convenience feature. Unfortunately, there is no standard way for websites to publish their feeds and make them searchable. The search has data for the most popular news outlets, but we don’t have the feeds for all websites on the internet. You can try using a search engine to find the feed URL or contact the website maintainers and ask them if they have a public RSS feed.

This plugin requires an internet connection; otherwise, it will be hidden.

The plugin will fetch the feed every time it is shown. In case you have the plugin on a slide with a longer duration (for example in a zone with the “play forever” option), the plugin will also check for feed updates every 30 minutes.

Both are XML-formatted data structures and both can contain images, so differentiating them can be confusing. News sites and blogs often publish an RSS feed whereas paid content from 3rd party providers 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. This plugin looks at 6 locations in the XML structure to find if the entry contains an image, but it can be just text as well. The image in the RSS feed is 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). Another noteworthy difference is that the media items inside Media RSS contain a duration, so the feed itself defines how long each item is shown. To sum it up, media RSS can be considered as an RSS feed with a clearly defined image location and duration.

RSS.app is a great addition to our RSS plugins, as it provides a wide range of feeds like Twitter, Google News, Reddit, Facebook, YouTube, Telegram, Pinterest, eBay, Tumblr, NYTimes, CNN, USA Today, BBC News, Washington Post, Vogue, CryptoCurrency News, Yahoo, Sky Sports, Reuters, Fox News, The New Yorker, ESPN, CBS Sports, NBC Sports, MLB.com, NHL.com, Sports Illustrated, CNN Business, CNET, TechRadar, World Health Organization, Al Jazeera and lots more.