# Automated blog content tracking with RSS: n8n workflow template

> Started by an event in a connected app, and works across RSS. 12 steps, 1 branch, 1 loop or waits: a working afternoon to understand properly.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/workflow/automated-blog-content-tracking-with-rss (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

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# Automated blog content tracking with RSS

Started by an event in a connected app, and works across RSS. 12 steps, 1 branch, 1 loop or waits: a working afternoon to understand properly.

Medium

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**12 steps** Medium: a working afternoon

**1** Branch: places the flow splits

**1** Loop or waits

**1** Service it connects to

## The flow

Starts it 1 Logic 10 Service 1

The steps in the order they run, from what starts it.

- 1 **When clicking ‘Execute workflow’** Manual trigger *Starts it*
- 2 **max_content_age_days** Set *Logic*
- 3 **Client ID + Max Content Age + Blogs** Merge *Logic*
- 4 **blogs to track** Set *Logic*
- 5 **Find Date & Time of Blogs** Date Time *Logic*
- 6 **Merge3** Merge *Logic*
- 7 **Split Out** Split Out *Logic*
- 8 **Filter Out Old Blogs** If *Logic*
- 9 **Split RSS Feeds** Split In Batches *Logic*
- 10 **Rss feed link** Set *Logic*
- 11 **RSS → Items** Rss Feed Read *Service*
- 12 **rss feed links + blogs** Merge *Logic*

## How it's built

- **Starts on:** An event in a connected app
- **Steps:** 12, with 1 branch, 1 loop or waits
- **Size:** Medium: a working afternoon
- **Connects to:** RSS
- **Model:** None. This is plumbing, not judgement

## Questions

What does it need to run?

An n8n account, plus your own RSS account. You connect your own accounts after importing it; none are included.

What starts it?

It starts on an event in a connected app.

Does it use AI?

No. Every step is fixed logic or a call to a service, so it does the same thing every time.

How long does it take to set up?

Plan an afternoon. 12 steps is enough that you should read each one before running it.

How do I import it?

Copy the workflow, open a new workflow in n8n and paste. The steps appear on the canvas, ready for your own accounts.

**Before you run it**

Nothing here has been tested by us. It is somebody's working automation, read and described from its own steps. Treat the connections it wants as a list of accounts it will touch, and read the 12 steps before you point it at anything that matters.

## Run it in n8n

- **Create your n8n account** Free to start. n8n is where the workflow runs. [Create an n8n account ↗](https://millionrounds.com/n8n)
- **Download the workflow** Free with a Millionrounds account. [Download free](https://millionrounds.com/login?next=%2Fapp%2Fworkflow%2Fautomated-blog-content-tracking-with-rss)
- **Paste it into n8n** Open a new workflow in n8n and paste. Then connect your own accounts.

Stored with the author's traces removed: canvas notes, instance identifiers, saved credential names and any live document they had left behind.

## Connects to

Each opens the other workflows that use it.

[RSS](https://millionrounds.com/workflows?service=RSS#library)

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Also content, with the same services where possible, closest in size first.

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- [**Curate learning content from Reddit & RSS with OpenAI** 12 steps · calls a model · Google Sheets, RSS](https://millionrounds.com/workflow/curate-learning-content-from-reddit-and-rss-with-openai)
- [**Daily AI news digest to LinkedIn posts with OpenAI and RSS** 12 steps · calls a model · Gmail, RSS](https://millionrounds.com/workflow/daily-ai-news-digest-to-linkedin-posts-with-openai-and-rss)