Reference

RSS Feed Configuration Reference

Setting	Description	Example
Feed URL	Must be a valid RSS or Atom feed URL. Most publication and blog platforms expose one automatically.	“https://example.com/feed”
Name	A label you choose to identify the feed in your feed list.	“Industry Daily”
Category	An optional tag for organizing feeds.	“Trade Press”
Account-wide vs. Persona-assigned	A feed can be made available to every persona on your account, or restricted to one or more specific personas.	Account-wide: on
Enabled / Disabled	Feeds can be temporarily disabled without deleting them, which pauses fetching.	Enabled
Fetch Interval	How often NewsbookLM checks the feed for new articles. Configurable per feed; defaults to checking roughly once per hour.	60 minutes

Relevance matching

RSS articles don’t carry their own keyword configuration. Relevance is determined by the keywords, negative keywords, and other Search-tab settings of whichever persona(s) the feed is assigned to. If a feed is account-wide, its articles are matched against whichever persona you’re running an analysis with at the time.

Article retention

Fetched articles remain stored and searchable indefinitely until you remove them. From a feed’s detail page, you can search, copy URLs, or permanently delete individual articles or all articles for that feed. Deleting a feed itself removes the feed and its persona associations, but previously fetched articles remain in your account.

Feed health

If a feed’s URL becomes invalid or temporarily unreachable, the feed will show a “Last Error” status with the error message, visible both on the main RSS Feeds list and on the feed’s detail page. Use the Fix link to edit the URL, then click Fetch Now to confirm the fix resolved the issue.