RSS.app offers a range of features to help you customize your Telegram alerts for a personalized experience.
Changing the Source
1. Click on Change Source.
2. Select the new feed or Bundle you'd like to push to Telegram.
If you select multiple feeds, we'll make a Bundle out of them.
Applying Filters
Filters allow you to refine your feed so that you're only getting the content that's most relevant to you. Click on Filter Feed to access the following settings.
Global Filter
You can toggle this button to enable/disable filters that apply across all of your feeds.
Auto Hide Posts
No images: Hide posts without images.
No description: Hide posts without descriptions.
No dates: Hide posts without dates.
No secure links: Hide posts without secure links.
Duplicate description: Hide posts with identical descriptions.
Duplicate titles: Hide posts with identical descriptions.
Clean Title
This feature removes certain terms or website names from the post title. It's helpful if you want to make the title cleaner and more relevant to the content itself.
Enable Auto-Cleaner: If enabled, it will automatically clean up post titles based on the keywords you’ve defined.
Automatically Hide Posts Older Than
You can set a time limit for how long posts remain visible before they are automatically hidden. Choose to hide posts older than a certain number of days or hours.
Whitelist
This allows you to filter posts based on keywords that must appear in the content to be included in the feed.
Blacklist
Similar to the whitelist, the blacklist lets you filter out posts containing specific keywords. If a post contains any of the blacklisted terms, it will be hidden.
Replace or Remove Text
This section allows you to replace or remove specific words, phrases, or URLs from the posts before they appear in your Telegram alerts.
Using Custom Bot / Botfather
BotFather is the official Telegram bot used to create and manage other bots. To activate the BotFather for your RSS.app bot:
1. Toggle the Use Custom Bot / BotFather button.
2. Use @BotFather in Telegram to create a bot with your desired name, username, and avatar.
3. Add the RSS.app bot and your newly created bot to the group or channel you want to send updates to.
4. Copy the generated bot token and paste it into RSS.app.
5. Use @username_to_id_bot to get your Chat ID and paste it into RSS.app.
When entering your chat ID, please ensure it includes a "-" (hyphen) at the beginning.
Click Save.
If you want to send posts to Telegram topics, make sure to toggle the "Is this group with topics?" button. After enabling this option, you'll need to insert the link to the topic where you want the posts to be sent (e.g., https://t.me/example/2).
If you add topics to your Telegram group, it will automatically be converted into a supergroup. As a result, the chat ID will change. Be sure to update your settings with the new chat ID.
Your RSS.app bot is now fully configured and should begin delivering posts to your Telegram immediately.