How-to Guides

How to Add an RSS Feed as a News Source

RSS feeds let you pull articles from a specific source, like a trade publication, a competitor’s blog, or an industry newsletter, directly into NewsbookLM’s analysis. This is useful when a source you care about doesn’t reliably show up in general news search.

Step 1: Go to RSS Feeds

From the sidebar, open Integrations, then click Manage RSS Feeds. You can also navigate there directly from the RSS Feeds page if you’ve added feeds before. This page lists every feed you’ve configured along with its status.

Step 2: Paste the feed URL

Click Add Feed. In the dialog, paste the feed’s URL into the Feed URL field. Most publications expose an RSS or Atom feed at a predictable path (often ending in /feed, /rss, or .xml) — check the publication’s site or its footer for a link if you’re not sure where to find it.

Step 3: Name the feed and assign it to a persona

Give the feed a Name so you can recognize it in your feed list, and optionally a Category for organization. You can mark a feed as account-wide, meaning it’s available to every persona, or assign it to one or more specific personas if it’s only relevant to a particular client or topic.

Step 4: Set relevance keywords

Relevance for RSS articles is determined by the keywords already configured on the persona(s) the feed is assigned to, not by separate keywords on the feed itself. If you want articles from this feed to be scored as relevant, make sure the persona’s keywords (set on the Search tab when creating or editing the persona) actually cover the topics this feed publishes about.

Step 5: Fetch articles to verify the feed works

Save the feed, then click Fetch Now on the RSS Feeds page (or on the individual feed’s detail page) to pull in articles immediately rather than waiting for the next scheduled fetch. If the feed URL is invalid or temporarily unreachable, you’ll see an error message directly on the feed card — click Fix to edit the URL.

Once articles start coming in, click into the feed to see everything it has fetched, search within those articles, and copy or remove individual articles. Feeds are fetched automatically on a recurring interval after that, so once verified, you don’t need to fetch manually again.

For feed-level settings like fetch frequency and how long articles are retained, see the RSS Feed Configuration Reference.