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How to integrate Short.io with RSS

RSS feed is a tool, which provides an easy way to be well informed about the latest publishings of your favorite blogs.

This tool is highly recommended for business companies. Blog is an important marketing tool for brand promotion and development. You may sign up for your personal blog and be notified when a new article is published.

Short.io & RSS Zap allows getting short links for a new article, which is added to the RSS feed. Simultaneously, a new short link for this article appears in the short URL list in your Short.cm account.

As a result, you may share a link at once without copy-pasting, what saves time and makes work uninterrupted.

Follow the instruction to configure Short.io & RSS Zap.

1. Go to Zapier.

2. Choose Make a Zap.

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3. Search for RSS and click its icon.

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4. Choose the "New Item In Feed" event. Continue.

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5. Input your public accessible RSS URL. Continue.

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6. Pick a sample of the article to test.

7. Now you need to add an action. Search for Short.io and click its icon.

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8. Choose the action and continue.

Zapier Short.cm action selection with Create a Short Link for RSS

9. If you configure this Zap for the first time, you need to connect Short.cm account.

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10. Go to your Short.io account or https://app.short.io/settings/integrations/api-key

11. Open User Menu.

Short.io dashboard header with hamburger menu highlighted

12. Choose the "Integrations & API" tab.

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13. Click Create API key.

Short.io API page with Create API Key button highlighted

Choose the domain or team, and click Create.

Short.io Create API key dialog with team and domain selectors

Copy your Secret API key by clicking the marked icon

Short.io created API key with copy to clipboard button

14. Paste API key to connect Short.io account. Continue.

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15. When account is on, continue.

16. Fill in necessary fields to send a short link. Continue.

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17. Send a test to make sure you've made a correct setup.

Important note

Please do not forget to turn on your Zap.