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Creating an external feed item

Poll an external feed for new items; any newly discovered items will be queued for processing into emails.

New to external feeds? See RSS-to-email for more on what they are and how they work.

Sample requests

These sample requests are autogenerated by the OpenAPI spec. This endpoint requires one or more parameters in the URL: those are offset in curly-braces.

import requests

url = "https://api.buttondown.com/v1/external_feeds/{id}/items"
headers = {
  "Authorization": "Token $BUTTONDOWN_API_KEY"
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)

Sample responses

The IDs and values referenced in these responses are fake; please only rely on these responses for overall structure.

{}