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RSS Subscriptions — Overview & Setup

Pro / Lifetime feature

RSS Subscriptions are available on the Pro and Lifetime plans only. Free users see an upgrade prompt in Settings → RSS Subscriptions.

RSS Subscriptions let you subscribe to any RSS or Atom feed URL. Every time the feed publishes a new article, Savebase automatically saves it to your library — optionally applying a folder and tags you choose at subscription time.

Overview

Think of it as a hands-free inbox for content you want to follow. You point Savebase at a feed (e.g. a tech blog, a newsletter archive, a subreddit's RSS, a YouTube channel feed) and any new item that appears will show up in your dashboard with your pre-selected tags and folder already applied.

  • Supports standard RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 feeds
  • New articles land in your dashboard as source: rss posts
  • Does not count toward your platform limit (treated as unlimited external content)
  • Enabled feeds are checked by the scheduled polling worker

Adding a Feed

1

Open Settings → RSS Subscriptions

Navigate to Dashboard → Settings → RSS Subscriptions.
2

Click “Add Feed”

The Add Feed form expands inline.
3

Paste the feed URL and test it

Enter the RSS or Atom URL and click Test Feed. Savebase validates the URL and shows the feed title as a preview. The Display Name field is auto-populated from the feed title — you can rename it.
4

Choose auto-folder and auto-tags (optional)

Select an existing folder from the dropdown. Click any tag badges to toggle them on — all checked tags will be applied to every new post from this feed.
5

Choose the saved frequency setting

The form currently stores one of four interval preferences: 30 minutes, hourly, every 6 hours, or daily. See Fetch Intervals below for the current scheduler behavior.
6

Click “Subscribe to Feed”

The subscription is saved. New articles will appear after an eligible scheduled poll.

Manual poll

The current Poll button invokes the shared polling worker. It can process any enabled feed that is due and does not bypass the worker's 25-minute eligibility window, so it is not a guaranteed per-feed immediate poll.

Fetch Intervals

The UI saves 30-minute, hourly, 6-hour, and daily preferences. In the current worker, however, that stored value is not used to determine eligibility. The worker runs every 15 minutes and selects enabled feeds that have never been checked or were last checked more than 25 minutes ago. In practice, an active feed is normally checked about every 30 minutes when scheduled runs succeed.

Current limitation

Hourly, 6-hour, and daily selections are stored but are not yet enforced by the polling worker. This page documents the behavior in the current build rather than promising the intended interval behavior.

Deduplication

Savebase tracks every ingested item by its guid (RSS) or id (Atom). If an item's GUID has already been saved for a given subscription, it is silently skipped — so the same article will never appear twice in your library, even if you manually poll.

Managing Subscriptions

  • Enable / Disable — use the toggle on a subscription card to pause polling without deleting the subscription
  • Poll — invoke the shared worker; feeds inside the 25-minute window may be skipped
  • Delete — removes the subscription and its deduplication history (existing saved posts are kept)

Plan downgrade

If your account no longer has Pro access, the worker skips its subscriptions. The subscription rows and posts already saved remain in your account. If Pro access returns while a subscription is still enabled, scheduled polling can resume.

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