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Monitoring, Ops & Incidents

Monitor RSS feeds and send new items to Slack and Google Sheets with Apify

Runs hourly, checks RSS or Atom feeds and blog URLs through an Apify Actor, posts new items to Slack as one digest, and logs every new item to Google Sheets.

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What it does

## RSS & website monitor: new items to Slack and Google Sheets Every hour this workflow checks your RSS/Atom feeds (or plain blog/news URLs, whose feed is auto-discovered), posts one Slack digest of items it has not seen before, and logs every new item to Google Sheets. Who it's for: anyone watching competitors' blogs, product changelogs, industry news or job/press pages without refreshing them by hand. How it works 1. Schedule trigger fires hourly. 2. You list feeds and optional include/exclude keywords. 3. The Apify Actor remembers what it already returned (per *state name*), so each run gives only new items. The first run only records the current items, so you aren't flooded. 4. Items go to Sheets; one digest goes to Slack. Feeds that fail are listed too. Actor: RSS Feed Monitor: New Items + Full-Text Markdown on the Apify Store. See its Store page for current pricing; the Apify node caps spend at $0.50 per run.

The steps

  1. Every hour
  2. Your feeds and keywords
  3. Fetch new feed items
  4. One row per new item
  5. Log items to Google Sheets
  6. Build one Slack digest
  7. Post digest to Slack

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