# Not public RSS Feed?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-public-rss-feed/346317
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** rss
**Created:** [January 9, 2025, 9:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-public-rss-feed/346317 "2025-01-09T09:13:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Wurzelseppi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Wurzelseppi)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2025, 9:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-public-rss-feed/346317/1 "2025-01-09T09:13:24Z")
Hey guys, just wanted to ask, if it would be somehow possible, to whitelist an host to read not public rss feeds ?
I´m not very comfortable to switch “Require authentication to read content on this site, disallow anonymous access” “false”, but I want to show the latest topics on Atlassian Confluence with the RSS reader macro.
This macro has no means to log in first, so I´m stuck at the moment with the setting "
Require authentication to read content on this site, disallow anonymous access." set to “false”
Is there something I missed ?
Thanks and Greetings,
WS
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### Author:  [@traceymoko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/traceymoko)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2025, 12:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-public-rss-feed/346317/2 "2025-01-10T12:55:54Z")
I think you should be able to use the Discourse RSS Polling Plugin:
> [@RSS Polling](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-polling/156387):
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> discourse2Summary Allows you to automatically import content from RSS/ATOM feeds into your Discourse site as topicsopen_bookInstall Guide This plugin is bundled with Discourse core. There is no need to install the plugin separately.bookmark This guide explains how to configure and use the RSS Polling plugin to automatically import content from RSS/ATOM feeds into your Discourse site as topics. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator Summary This…
You can add RSS feeds through their RSS URL like so:
And it should let you have the `Login required` setting turned on:
But I’m a bit unsure what you mean – can you clarify if this is what you want? ^^
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2025, 1:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-public-rss-feed/346317/3 "2025-01-10T13:58:02Z")
> [@How to get a feed from a password protected Discourse?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-a-feed-from-a-password-protected-discourse/29602/2):
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> I assume you mean RSS feeds. You can generate an API key for a user account on your site in the admin section. Then you can just append it to any URL like so: http://meta.discourse.org/latest.rss?api\_key=KEYHERE I should note there are security issues with making that api key visible to users. If someone has it, they can do anything that the underlying user account can do. It would be much better to fetch the RSS server side using the key then only exposing the resulting feed. Also, be espec…
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### Author:  [@Wurzelseppi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Wurzelseppi)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2025, 9:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-public-rss-feed/346317/4 "2025-01-13T09:57:18Z")
Hi there, jap, that would probably work, if the oauth2 basic plugin would not directly route the unauthenticated request to the Idp-Portal ☹
Therefore the
[https://mycommunity.example.net/latest.rss?api-key=xyz](https://mycommunity.example.net/latest.rss?api-key=xyz)
leads me directly to login mask and the rss client spits out an error ☹
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### Author:  [@Wurzelseppi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Wurzelseppi)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2025, 6:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-public-rss-feed/346317/5 "2025-01-27T06:19:34Z")
no hints here ?