>
> ```
>
> You can find the `channel_id` in YouTube under **Advanced settings** for the channel.
>
> > ⚠ Using a standard channel URL, username URL, or custom channel URL directly will **not** work. The RSS Polling plugin requires the explicit `channel_id` feed URL format.
### Test feeds
Before saving a new or edited feed, click Test feed to fetch and analyze the feed without importing anything. You’ll see:
- A summary count of how many items would be imported, are already imported, or would be skipped.
- A line-by-line breakdown of the first items in the feed, each with a plain-language explanation for why it would be imported or skipped.
This is useful for verifying your configuration — especially the category filter — before it affects your community.
### Recent polls
On the edit page for any existing feed, the **Recent polls** area shows the last several poll attempts. Each attempt displays counts of imported, updated, skipped, and failed items. You can expand any attempt to see per-item detail, including links to the topics that were created or updated.
When you click Poll now, results appear in real time without a page refresh.
## Settings
The **Settings** tab links to the relevant site settings for RSS Polling.
| Name | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `rss polling feed request timeout` | How long (in seconds) to wait before giving up on a slow feed request. Defaults to 30 seconds. |
| `rss polling verbose logging` | Enable detailed per-item logging for each poll attempt. Off by default; useful for troubleshooting. |
| `rss polling use pubdate` | Use the original publication date from the feed item as the topic date, rather than the date it was imported. |
| `rss polling update tags` | Update topic tags when a topic is updated; when disabled, pulls initial tags only. |
## Control topic visibility
### Prevent topics from being unlisted
By default, embedded topics are unlisted until they receive a reply. To prevent RSS-imported topics from being unlisted:
1. Go to **Admin → All site settings**.
2. Search for `embed unlisted`.
3. Disable this setting.
### Show full post content
If the `embed truncate` setting is enabled (the default), feed topics will only display an excerpt. To show full content:
1. Go to **Admin → All site settings**.
2. Search for `embed truncate`.
3. Disable this setting.
If full post content still isn’t displaying correctly, configure the `embed whitelist selector` setting to specify which HTML elements should be imported.
## Common issues
### Feed not updating
- Confirm the feed URL is valid and publicly accessible.
- Check that `rss polling frequency` isn’t set too high.
- Verify that there are new items in the feed since the last poll.
- Use the Test feed button to check what the plugin sees in the feed without committing a full poll.
- Enable `rss polling verbose logging` for more detail on what’s happening during each poll.
### Topics created with wrong dates
Enable the `rss polling use pubdate` setting to use the original publication date from the feed item instead of the import date.
### Each feed URL is only imported once
Deleting and re-adding the same feed URL will not re-import previously processed items. Each RSS item is only imported once.
## Additional resources
- [Configuring allowed embed selectors](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-configure-the-embed-whitelist-selector-setting/134481)
- [Administrative Bulk Operations](https://meta.discourse.org/t/administrative-bulk-operations/118349)
- [Embed Discourse comments on another website via Javascript](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-discourse-comments-via-javascript/31963)
> Last edited by @lindsey 2026-07-22T12:41:40Z
>
> > **Check document**
> >
> > Perform check on document:
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2024, 1:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-polling/156387/159 "2024-07-05T13:08:56Z")
3 posts were split to a new topic: [Where to set up the RSS feeds?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-to-set-up-the-rss-feeds/315136)
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2024, 1:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-polling/156387/162 "2024-07-05T13:16:07Z")
A post was split to a new topic: [Are there any upper limits to the RSS Polling plugin?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-there-any-upper-limits-to-the-rss-polling-plugin/315137)
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2024, 1:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-polling/156387/163 "2024-07-05T13:12:06Z")
4 posts were merged into an existing topic: [RSS plugin not pulling images](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-plugin-not-pulling-images/315135/2)
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2025, 3:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-polling/156387/174 "2025-06-05T03:50:25Z")
A post was split to a new topic: [Export RSS feed urls](https://meta.discourse.org/t/export-rss-feed-urls/368927)
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-polling/156387/178 "2025-07-16T21:48:44Z")
🥳 This plugin is now bundled with Discourse core as part of [Bundling more popular plugins with Discourse core](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bundling-more-popular-plugins-with-discourse-core/373574). If you are self-hosting and use the plugin, you need to remove it from your `app.yml` before your next upgrade.
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### Author:  [@MoRanYue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MoRanYue)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2025, 5:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-polling/156387/179 "2025-10-18T17:55:56Z")
Will you add multilanguage support? Some websites offer multiple versions of articles which are in different languages, and use `` tag to label its language.
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### Author:  [@dontdieych](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dontdieych)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2025, 6:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-polling/156387/181 "2025-12-26T18:46:56Z")
> [@Discourse](#):
>
> ### Prevent topics from being unlisted
>
> By default, embedded topics are unlisted until they receive a reply. This behavior doesn’t make sense for RSS-imported topics. To prevent RSS topics from being unlisted:
>
> 1. Go to `/admin/site_settings`
> 2. Search for “embed unlisted”
> 3. Disable this setting
That part should be updated for current state.
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### Author:  [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2026, 7:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-polling/156387/183 "2026-08-14T07:50:03Z")
Found this handy tool for using YouTube channel to generate a variety of channel rssfeeds. Free Web tool.
> **[News Keeper - The RSS Reader in Telegram](https://newskeeper.pages.dev/tools/youtube-rss?query=%40nextlevelsimgaming)**
>
> News Keeper delivers real-time RSS updates directly to your Telegram. Stay informed with ease!