Point a PostRSS webhook at an automation platform and your feed becomes a trigger. From there it can reach a spreadsheet, a CRM, a database, an email sequence or anything else those platforms connect to — without writing a line of code.
Every other destination PostRSS supports is a place your content is published. This one is not a destination at all — it is a doorway.
Zapier, n8n and Make are automation platforms that connect services together. Each of them can start a workflow when it receives an HTTP request at a URL it gives you. Point a PostRSS webhook Target at that URL, and every new item in your feed starts a workflow.
What happens next is entirely up to you. The item can be appended to a spreadsheet, filed in a database, added to a CRM as a content record, sent to a mailing list, posted to a platform PostRSS does not support natively, translated, summarised, or fanned out to five of those at once.
In other words, this Target turns “PostRSS supports these networks” into “PostRSS reaches anything your automation platform reaches”, which is several thousand services across the three of them.
The chain has three links: your feed, PostRSS, and the automation platform. In PostRSS the webhook URL is a Target and each delivery counts as one Task against your plan’s monthly allowance.
In Zapier, create a Zap and choose Webhooks by Zapier as the trigger, with the Catch Hook event. Zapier gives you a URL.
In n8n, add a Webhook node as the first node in a workflow. n8n gives you a test URL and a production URL — use the production one, and remember the workflow must be activated for it to listen.
In Make, create a scenario starting with a Custom webhook module. Make gives you a URL and waits to learn the data structure from the first delivery.
Add it as a webhook Target. There is no OAuth step, no app to install and no approval to wait for.
All three platforms learn the structure of incoming data from a sample. Publish something on your site, or wait for the next feed item, and the platform will capture it and show you the available fields — typically the title, the link, the description, the publication date and the image.
This step is not optional on Make, which explicitly waits for a sample before you can map anything, and it is the fastest way to configure the others too.
Map the fields to whatever comes next. From here it is the automation platform’s job, and every one of them documents this part far better than a short guide could.
This is the single most valuable piece of advice on the page, and it is about cost as much as tidiness.
Zapier bills by task and Make bills by operation, which means every item you send is charged whether the workflow acts on it or not. A filter step inside Zapier still consumes a task to decide that an item should be discarded.
PostRSS applies filters before anything is sent. Restricting a Target by category, tag or keyword means the unwanted items never leave, so you are not paying an automation platform to throw them away. On a busy feed where only a tenth of items matter, this is often the difference between a free tier being sufficient and needing a paid plan.
The same logic applies to scheduling. A publishing window spreads deliveries instead of sending a burst, which keeps you inside the per-minute limits these platforms apply and makes a workflow’s run history far easier to read.
The most common use. If your automation platform has a connector for a service, your feed can now post to it. This is also the sensible route for internal or industry-specific tools that no RSS product will ever integrate with directly.
Append every published item to a spreadsheet or database — title, URL, date, category. On a WordPress site, the PostRSS plugin decides which content types feed it before anything leaves your server. After a year you have a complete, queryable record of everything the site published, built without anyone maintaining it. Marketing teams that have ever tried to reconstruct this retrospectively will recognise the value.
One delivery into the platform, several actions out: a spreadsheet row, a CRM record and a message to a partner’s system. One Task in PostRSS, one trigger downstream.
Pass the item through a step that summarises it, translates it, or rewrites the title for a particular audience, then publish the result. This is where n8n’s flexibility in particular pays off.
Trigger a cache purge, a search-index update, a static-site rebuild or a partner notification when something new is published — using the feed as the signal that something changed.
Send items to different destinations based on their content: press releases to one workflow, technical posts to another. Do the coarse split with separate filtered Targets in PostRSS, and the fine detail downstream.
They overlap heavily, and the right choice usually comes down to constraints rather than features.
Zapier is the easiest to start with and has the largest connector library. Its pricing is per task, which makes upstream filtering matter most here.
Make offers more elaborate branching and visual flow control, and tends to work out cheaper at volume. Its per-operation billing rewards the same discipline.
n8n can be self-hosted, which changes the economics entirely — if you run it yourself, per-execution cost stops being a consideration and the constraint becomes your own server. For anyone already self-hosting, this is usually the right answer, and it pairs naturally with a self-hosted Matrix room or your own endpoint.
All three receive an identical delivery from PostRSS, so switching later means changing one URL.
Nothing requires an automation platform at all. The same webhook Target can point at a URL you wrote yourself — a small script on your server, a serverless function, or an endpoint in your existing application.
This is the lowest-cost and most flexible arrangement available, and for developers it is often the right one. Your endpoint receives each new feed item and does whatever you decide, with no platform in between and no per-task billing.
Two practical notes. Respond quickly with a success status so deliveries are not left waiting on slow processing — acknowledge first, then do the work. And verify that requests really came from your automation before acting on them, rather than trusting anything that arrives at the URL.
On n8n, check the workflow is activated and that you used the production URL rather than the test URL — this accounts for most reports. On Zapier, confirm the Zap is turned on. On Make, confirm the scenario is scheduled or set to run immediately.
Check the Target in PostRSS and confirm the feed itself updated. A caching plugin serving a stale copy looks identical to a broken automation from the outside.
The platform learned its structure from the first delivery. If your mapping was built before a full sample arrived, re-capture a fresh one and remap.
Filtering is happening downstream rather than in PostRSS. Move the rules onto the Target so unwanted items never leave.
No schedule is set. Add a publishing window — this also keeps you inside the platform’s per-minute limits.
Compare timestamps. Under five minutes is the feed-check interval working as designed. Hours usually means the feed is being served from a cache, or a window is holding items.
A webhook URL is a credential: anyone holding it can start your workflow. Keep it out of public issues, screenshots and repositories, and regenerate it on the platform if you suspect it has been seen.
Because a workflow can reach systems well beyond a chat channel, the consequences of a leak here are broader than elsewhere. It is worth being deliberate about what the downstream workflow is permitted to do, and about validating the content it receives before passing it to anything that acts on it.
Each webhook you connect is one Target, and each delivery is one Task against your plan’s monthly allowance. Paid plans raise both numbers and add the other networks, and they are chosen on postrss.com.
Note that a fan-out workflow is efficient on the PostRSS side: one delivery is one Task regardless of how many destinations the automation platform then reaches.
Use a native destination where one exists: Telegram, Discord, Bluesky and the rest are simpler and cost one Task each. A webhook is for everything else — a service with no native support, an internal system, or a workflow that has to do several things at once.
For team chat specifically you do not need an automation platform at all: Slack and Microsoft Teams accept an incoming webhook directly. And if the feed you are sending comes from WordPress, the PostRSS plugin builds the filtered feed for you before it ever reaches the webhook.
No. Zapier, n8n and Make are all configured visually. Code is an option, not a requirement.
Zapier for the largest connector library and the easiest start, Make for complex branching at lower cost, n8n if you want to self-host. All three receive the same delivery, so switching means changing one URL.
Yes, provided your automation platform has a connector for it. That is the most common reason people use this Target.
Because Zapier and Make charge for every item they receive, including ones a filter step then discards. Filtering upstream means you never pay for them.
Yes. Any URL that accepts an HTTP request works, including a script or serverless function you wrote yourself.
No. PostRSS delivers items that appear in the feed after the Target starts running.
Create the trigger, paste the URL into a filtered Target, publish one item and look at what the platform captured. Build the simplest useful thing first — a spreadsheet row is a good candidate — and extend from there once you can see the shape of the data. The filtering decision is the one worth getting right at the start; everything else is easy to change later.
