Introduction

An automation is a one-to-one mapping between an external RSS feed and an action to be performed when new items are detected in that feed. Right now, Buttondown offers two actions:

Send an email
Create an email but save it as a draft to be sent out manually

The automation is configured with a cadence, which is the frequency at which the automation will be run. The cadence can be one of the following:

Run the automation every time a new item is detected in the feed
Run the automation once per week
Run the automation once per month

{
    "creation_date": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
    "id": "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08",
    "status": "active",
    "behavior": "emails",
    "cadence": "every",
    "subject": "New post: {{ item.title }}",
    "body": "I just published a new post: {{ item.url }}"
}

string

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Automations

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Fields

id

creation_date

last_checked_date

status

behavior

cadence

cadence_metadata

filters

url

subject

body

label