How to Insert Dynamic Content Feeds into an Email

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Before Getting Started

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Linking an RSS Feed to a Campaign

1. Click New Campaign inside of the Campaigns tab
2. Enter a name for your campaign and check the RSS Feed box
3. Choose the format of your feed (either RSS or JSON) and enter the URL
4. Click Next: Audience to continue the process of building your campaign, and move on to the next section!

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Building an RSS-Based Campaign

With the Sendlane RSS feed reader, you can display the following properties for each post:

• title
• description
• content
• image - html <img> tag
• image_url
• author
• link
• date

RSS works in both of our email builder formats (drag-and-drop or HTML) and uses the same syntax. To implement this, when inside of the Email Builder drag an HTML block into your email:

Next, place the code necessary for printing the proper attributes you want to display inside the HTML content block. Below we have listed all of the available attributes to choose from.

Printing Details of a Single Post

Use ‘.0’ for the first post, ‘.1’ for the second post, etc. in the following syntax (keeping only the items you need):

{{ RSS.items.0.title }}

{{ RSS.items.0.description }}

{{ RSS.items.0.content }}

{{ RSS.items.0.image }}

{{ RSS.items.0.image_url }}

{{ RSS.items.0.author }}

{{ RSS.items.0.link }}

{{ RSS.items.0.date }}

Printing a Loop of Posts

Use the following syntax (keeping only the items you need):

{% for item in RSS.items %}

    {{ item.title }}

    {{ item.description }}

    {{ item.content }}

    {{ item.image }}

    {{ item.image_url }}

    {{ item.author }}

    {{ item.link }}

    {{ item.date }}

{% endfor %}

Please Note

By default, the feed grabs up to 20 items, but this limit can be increased if needed.

Slicing Your Content

To only print 3 items instead of 5, use the ‘slice’ command:

{% for post in JSON|slice(0,3) %}

Randomizing Your Content

To pick a few "random" posts from your feed:

{% set post1, post2 = random(9), random(9) %}

{{ RSS.items[post1].title }}

{{ RSS.items[post1].image }}

{{ RSS.items[post2].title }}

{{ RSS.items[post2].image }}

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