You can automatically post new RSS feed items to Airtable using n8n. This workflow is useful if you want to save articles, blog posts, news alerts, or updates into a sortable and filterable Airtable database.

Prerequisites

An RSS.app account
An n8n account
An Airtable account

Step 1: Create an RSS feed with RSS.app

1. Go to RSS Generator.

2. Paste the URL of the content you want to turn into a feed (e.g. a Twitter profile, subreddit, or blog).

3. Click Generate.

4. Once your feed is ready, click Save to My Feeds.

5. Copy the generated XML URL.

You can translate the feed, apply filters, or create multiple feeds and combine them into a single stream using our Bundles feature.

Step 2: Add the RSS Feed trigger in n8n

1. Click Create Workflow in your n8n dashboard.

2. Click the + button and search for RSS Feed Trigger.

3. Choose how often you want n8n to check your feed for updates by setting the Poll Time.

4. Paste the RSS.app feed URL and click Fetch Test Event.

n8n will fetch the latest feed items according to your poll time.

Step 3: Add an Airtable node in n8n

1. Click the + button and add an Airtable node.

2. Choose Create a Record as the action.

3. Open the Credentials tab and follow the n8n documentation to connect your Airtable account:

Go to Airtable's Personal Access Tokens page.
Click + Create new token and give it a name.
Add these scopes: data.records:read, data.records:write, schema.bases:read.
Under Access, click Add a base and select the base you want to use.

4. Copy the token and paste it into n8n.

Step 4: Map your data and test the workflow

1. Select your Airtable Base and Table from the dropdown list.

2. Map fields from the RSS feed to your database fields.

If your Airtable base includes additional fields (such as Tags, Category, or any Multi-select column), you can enter the value you want assigned to every new record.

If you want to map an image URL into Airtable, make sure your RSS feed in RSS.app has Include media in the enclosure enabled under Feed Output.

3. Click Execute Step.

You should see new test records appear inside your Airtable base.

Step 5: Activate your workflow

Toggle the Active button to turn on the workflow.

Once it’s active, n8n will automatically check your RSS feed for new items according to the poll interval you set. Each time new posts are found, they’ll be added to your Airtable base.