How to Auto-Post an RSS Feed to Bale Channels (2026)

Updated: 2026-09-28

Short answer: create a bot with @BotFather inside Bale, add it to your channel as an admin, and paste the bot token ainsi que votre channel ID or @username into PostRSS under Accounts → Add new Bale account. Then open Cibles → Add feed, choose Bale in Target settings and add your feed under Add source (Type = RSS feed, Link = your feed address). Each new item is posted as plain text with a link, or as an image with the text as its caption. Persian right-to-left text is supported. Bale is included from the Professional plan.

Bale is an Iranian messaging platform with channels, and its bot interface will look immediately familiar to anyone who has set up a Telegram bot — including the name of the tool you use to create one. This guide is the long version; the auto-post RSS to Bale page has the short one.

@BotFather, inside Bale

Bale uses the same convention Telegram popularised: you talk to @BotFather inside the app, it creates a bot and gives you a token. The important detail is that this is Bale's own @BotFather, not Telegram's — the two are separate platforms and the tokens are not interchangeable.

After creating the bot, add it to your channel as an admin. A bot without administrator rights in the channel cannot post, and the failure is silent rather than reported.

PostRSS then posts through your own bot, using its token and your channel ID or @username. There is no registration with PostRSS on Bale's side and nothing to get approved.

Text or image

Each item is posted one of two ways. When the feed item has a usable image, it goes out as a picture with the text as its caption. When it does not, it goes out as plain text with a link back to your article.

That means the feed decides the format. If your articles carry featured images and your CMS puts them in the RSS, the channel gets picture posts; if not, it gets text. Neither is wrong, but picture posts generally perform better in a channel feed, so it is worth checking which one you are producing.

Right-to-left text, handled properly

Persian is written right to left, and that creates two problems for any tool posting text it did not compose.

The first is direction: mixing a right-to-left title with a left-to-right URL can render in a confusing order if the message is assembled carelessly. The second is truncation. Persian is written in a connected script, and cutting a message at an arbitrary byte can split a character in half, producing a broken glyph at the end of the post.

PostRSS supports right-to-left Persian text and never cuts a post in the middle of a character. If you publish in Persian, that is the detail that decides whether the channel looks professional or looks automated in the wrong way.

Bale next to the other Iranian destinations

PostRSS supports three Iranian messengers, and they differ in how access works rather than in what they do:

• Bale — a bot you create with @BotFather inside the app, added to the channel as an admin.
• Eitaa — an Eitaayar API token, with no bot to create.
• Rubika — a bot token and a chat ID, and it accepts groups as well as channels.

All three are on the Professional plan, all three handle Persian correctly, and one feed can reach all three from three Targets. For a publisher with an Iranian audience that is usually the right answer, because the platforms are used by overlapping but distinct groups of people.

What to send to a channel

A channel is a notification surface, and every post is something arriving on somebody's phone. Three habits keep subscribers:

• Send a filtered feed, not everything. If your site publishes several categories, point the channel at the one subscribers actually signed up for.
• Make the title carry the post. In a channel message the headline is most of what people see, so titles written to sit under a hero image on your own site often land flat.
• Check the image is real. A generic stock photo attached to every item trains people to ignore the posts; no image is better than a meaningless one.

None of that is automation advice, but a muted channel is worth nothing however reliably it is fed, and these are decisions you make once when choosing which feed to connect.

Setting it up, step by step

1. Create a bot with @BotFather inside Bale and add it to your channel as an admin. Note the bot token and the channel ID or @username.
2. In PostRSS, open Accounts and choose Add new Bale account. Paste the bot token and the channel ID or @username.
3. Open Targets and click Add feed. One feed going to one destination is one Target.
4. In Target settings, choose Bale 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 channel goes quiet, the feed is usually the cause. Open its URL in a browser first.

• Anything new since you connected it? Only items appearing after the Target starts running are posted.
• Do the titles stand alone? In a channel message the title does most of the work.
• Is there an image in the item? It has to be in the feed, not merely on the page the item links to.
• Absolute links? Relative URLs work on your site and break everywhere else.

Which plan includes it

Bale 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 Bale page has the short version of the setup.

When posts stop arriving

• The token was regenerated. The old one stops working immediately; paste the new value.
• The bot lost its rights in the channel. A bot that is not an administrator cannot publish, and the symptom is silence.
• The channel identifier is wrong. Check it against the channel you actually want.
• Nothing new in the feed. Only items appearing after the Target starts running are posted.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Bale's @BotFather the same as Telegram's?

No. Bale has its own @BotFather inside its own app, and the tokens are not interchangeable between the two platforms.

Does the bot need to be an admin?

Yes. A bot that is only a member of the channel cannot publish, and the failure is silent rather than reported as an error.

What identifies the channel?

Either its channel ID or its @username. Both work.

Is Persian text supported?

Yes. Right-to-left Persian is supported, and posts are never cut in the middle of a character, which is the usual failure mode when a connected script is truncated by length.

When do posts include an image?

When the feed item carries a usable one. Otherwise the item is posted as plain text with a link.

Which plan includes Bale?

The Professional plan, alongside Eitaa and Rubika.

The bottom line

Bale follows the Telegram-style bot pattern closely: create a bot with @BotFather inside Bale, make it an admin of your channel, paste the token and the channel identifier. Persian text is handled correctly, including the truncation problem that catches most tools. It is included from the Professional plan.