Common questions

What are refresh rates?

Refresh rates determine how frequently Feed Control checks your feeds for updates. A blog with infrequent updates doesn't need to be checked very often, whereas a frequently updated news site should be. A refresh rate of 1 hour means the feed will be checked every hour for updates. You can set the refresh rate per feed, but it cannot exceed your plan's limit.

How do email alerts works?

If you enable email alerts, Feed Control will send you emails with the latest feed items. You can set the kind of alert you want: email for each new item, or daily, weekly, or monthly summaries.

What's feed expansion?

Many feeds contain a short summary in each feed item instead of the full article. When adding a new feed with Feed Control, enable 'fetch full text' and we'll try to retrieve the full content for each feed item. Feed Control can then send you the full article content in its webhooks and also let you generate full-text RSS feeds which you can subscribe to in your feed reader or integrate with your application via Zapier or IFTTT.

What's webpage to RSS?

Do you want to monitor a site that doesn't offer a feed? Our Feed Creator application lets you generate feeds from web pages. These can then be monitored like any other feed in Feed Control.

What are bundles?

Bundles allow you to group one or more feeds. Enabling RSS or JSON output on a bundle allows you to use a single RSS feed rather than multiple feeds in situations where that's needed.

What are filters?

When you're only interested in feed items that contain a certain word or phrase, use filters. Filters let you specify keywords and URL segments to tell Feed Control which items to keep or ignore. Enable RSS generation and you can subscribe to your filtered feed in other applications too.

What are integrations?

We offer Slack, Discord and Webhook integrations. Connect Feed Control to your Slack workspace or Discord server and set up feed updates to be posted in specified channels. Webhooks can be used to let Feed Control send new feed items directly to your application. Learn more...

Can you increase the limits?

Yes. If the business plan isn't big enough for you, please get in touch with your requirements and we'll give you more options.