How to get a Telegram message when an RSS feed updates

Watch a blog, a job board, a competitor's changelog, a subreddit, or a news site without checking it — Make.com can ping your Telegram the moment a feed publishes something new. Free tier, about 5 minutes.

What you'll build

A two-step scenario: RSS watches a feed URL → Telegram sends you the title and link of each new item. Checks every 15 minutes by default. At ~2 operations per new item, hundreds of alerts a month stay inside Make.com's free 1,000-operation limit.

Find the feed URL

Most sites publish one at /feed, /rss, or /feed.xml. If that fails, open the page source and search for type="application/rss+xml" — the href next to it is the feed. Reddit: add .rss to any subreddit or user URL. YouTube: the channel page source contains a feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=… link.

Before you start

• A free Make.com account.
• A Telegram bot token from @BotFather (/newbot).
• Your chat ID: message the bot once, then open https://api.telegram.org/bot<YOUR_TOKEN>/getUpdates and read "chat":{"id": ... }.

Steps

1. Make.com: Scenarios → Create a new scenario.
2. Add RSS → Watch RSS feed items. Paste your feed URL.
3. Set Maximum number of returned results to 3–5 so a full feed can't fire dozens of messages on the first run.
4. Add Telegram Bot → Send a Text Message. Connect it with your bot token.
5. Chat ID: your own chat ID.
6. Text: e.g. 🆕 {{title}}\n{{link}}. Add {{description}} if you want a summary line.
7. Set the schedule (every 15 minutes is fine), toggle the scenario ON.

Common snags

• "Invalid feed" error. The URL is an HTML page, not the feed itself. Recheck using the source-view trick above.
• Flood of messages on first run. You didn't cap the result count — set it to 3–5 and, if needed, let one run clear the backlog.
• Feed updates but nothing fires. Some feeds only expose the latest N items; if the site posts a burst between checks, shorten the interval.