Save RSS Feed Items to a Database

You'll need to provide the RSS feed URL for the website you want to monitor. Most sites offer RSS feeds at /feed or /rss (like https://example.com/feed), or you can look for the orange RSS icon on their blog page. The trigger automatically checks for new items every 15 minutes and captures essential article data like title, author, publication date, description, and link. Once configured, this step runs completely on its own and passes each new article's information to the database creation step.

The action automatically creates a new row in your "rss_feed" database table for each article, organizing the data into clean columns: author, createdAt (publication date), title, description (with HTML tags removed for clean text), and Link. You'll need to specify which database and table to use - MESA will create the table structure automatically if it doesn't exist yet. The step processes the raw RSS data and formats it appropriately, like stripping HTML from descriptions to ensure clean, readable text in your database.