How to Auto-Post RSS to DeviantArt Status Updates (2026)

Updated: 2026-09-28

Short answer: sign in with your DeviantArt account through the official DeviantArt login under Accounts → Add new DeviantArt account — PostRSS never sees your password. Then open Ziele → Add feed, choose DeviantArt in Target settings and add your feed under Add source (Type = RSS feed, Link = your feed address). Each new item is posted as a status update on your profile with its text and a link to the article. Pictures are not attached. DeviantArt is included from the Professional plan.

DeviantArt is one of the oldest creative communities still running, and for a lot of illustrators, concept artists and photographers it is where an audience accumulated over years that no newer platform has replaced. What it is not, for this purpose, is a place to publish your artwork automatically. This guide is the long version; the auto-post RSS to DeviantArt page has the short one.

Status updates, not deviations

This is the thing to understand before setting anything up. PostRSS posts status updates to your profile — short posts with text and a link, the format DeviantArt uses for announcements. It does not upload deviations, and pictures are not attached.

That is the right division of labour rather than a gap. Uploading artwork is an editorial act: you choose the file, the category, the mature-content flags, the tags and the description, and an automated pipeline choosing those for you would be a liability. Telling your watchers that a new post exists on your site is a different job, and it is the one that quietly stops happening when you are busy making things.

What this is for

• A portfolio site or blog whose new entries your DeviantArt watchers would want to know about.
• Commission availability and shop updates, where the announcement matters more than the picture.
• Process posts and tutorials published on your own site.
• Convention schedules, print releases, zine announcements — anything time-bound that watchers would otherwise miss.

What it is not for is replacing your gallery. Watchers follow you for the work; the status feed is how they hear about everything around it.

The login, and what it can do

Connecting goes through DeviantArt's own OAuth login. You sign in on DeviantArt, approve the connection there, and PostRSS receives a token — it never sees your password, and you can revoke access from your DeviantArt account settings at any time without changing anything else.

That matters more on a platform where the account holds years of work. The connection is scoped to posting status updates on your behalf, which is a much smaller permission than the account itself carries.

Volume, and the audience that will tell you

A DeviantArt watch list is a notification stream, and creative communities are candid about accounts that fill it. A status update per new article is welcome from someone who posts weekly and irritating from a site that publishes five times a day.

If your feed is busy, point the Target at a category feed rather than the whole site — the announcements category, the shop, the commission-status page. Most content systems publish per-category feeds, and using one is the difference between watchers reading your updates and muting them.

Setting it up, step by step

1. Have your DeviantArt account ready — the connection is made through DeviantArt's own login.
2. In PostRSS, open Accounts and choose Add new DeviantArt account. Sign in through the official DeviantArt login and approve the connection.
3. Open Targets and click Add feed. One feed going to one destination is one Target.
4. In Target settings, choose DeviantArt and the account you just connected.
5. Click Add source. Set Type to RSS feed and paste your feed address into Link. Save.
6. Check the first item that arrives. PostRSS checks the feed every 5 minutes, and every minute on Enterprise plans.

PostRSS publishes items that appear in the feed after the Target starts running. It does not import the back catalogue — the alternative would be a destination flooded with years of archive on its first day.

Check the feed before you check the integration

When a destination goes quiet, the feed is usually the cause. Open the feed URL in a browser first.

• Has anything been published since you connected it? Only items that appear after the Target starts running are published.
• Is it full text or a summary? A summary-only feed produces thin posts, and no destination can restore text the feed never sent.
• Is there an image in the item? It has to be in the feed — in the item content or as an enclosure — not merely on the page the item links to.
• Are the links absolute? Relative URLs work on your site and break everywhere else.

All four are fixed in your content system.

Which plan includes it

DeviantArt is included from the Professional plan. Each destination you connect counts as one Target, and your plan decides how many Targets and how many posts a month you get. An annual subscription is cheaper than paying monthly. Current limits per tier are on the pricing page, and the full lineup of 66 networks is on the supported networks page. The DeviantArt page has the short version of the setup.

When updates stop appearing

• Access was revoked on DeviantArt. Reconnect the account under Accounts; revoking happens in your DeviantArt settings.
• Nothing new in the feed. Only items appearing after the Target starts running are posted.
• You expected a picture. Status updates carry text and a link. Pictures are not attached, by design.
• The feed titles are weak. In a status update the title and link do all the work; a feed shipping bare dates produces updates nobody clicks.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can PostRSS upload artwork to my DeviantArt gallery?

No. It posts status updates with text and a link, not deviations. Uploading artwork involves editorial choices — category, tags, mature-content flags — that should not be automated.

Are pictures attached to the status updates?

No. Each update carries the item's text and a link to the article. That is the format DeviantArt uses for announcements.

Does PostRSS see my DeviantArt password?

No. You sign in through DeviantArt's own OAuth login and approve the connection there; PostRSS receives a token and never the password.

How do I disconnect it later?

Revoke access in your DeviantArt account settings. Delivery stops immediately, and nothing else about your account is affected.

How often should I post?

As often as your feed genuinely has news. A watch list is a notification stream, and creative communities mute accounts that fill it. If your site publishes daily, point the Target at a narrower category feed.

Which plan includes DeviantArt?

The Professional plan.

Will connecting a feed post my old articles?

No. Only items appearing after the Target starts running are published.

The bottom line

DeviantArt is a status-update destination, not a gallery uploader, and that is the correct shape for it: your watchers hear about new work on your own site without you automating the editorial decisions that uploading artwork involves. Sign in through DeviantArt, point a Target at a feed that has real news in it, and leave the gallery to you. It is included from the Professional plan.