The ScreenCloud RSS Feed pulls the latest posts from any RSS source and turns them into posts on your screens, so news, updates, and announcements reach your audience automatically. No extra editing or design work required.

About this Feed

Any RSS Source, On Your Screens

Add content from any publicly available RSS feed, news outlets like the New York Times, science and space sources like NASA, or your own blog or website. If it has an RSS feed, it can appear on your screens.

Always Up to Date

New items published to the RSS feed are automatically picked up and turned into posts, with no separate step to create or format anything. Your screens stay current without any manual effort.

Simple to Set Up

All you need is the RSS feed URL. Add it, choose your feed settings, and your screens will start showing the newest content. Use AI Instructions to refine exactly what comes through.

Setting Up the RSS Feed

Adding the Feed to a Collection

In your Collection:

Click the Feeds tab, then Add New Feed.
Select RSS Feed from the list of sources.
Enter the RSS feed URL for the source you want to display.
Optional: add an AI instruction to shape how incoming items are handled.
Once everything's filled in, click Save new feed.

Adding to a Screen

For the Collection that has your RSS Feed, assign it to a paired screen:

Open your Collection and select the Screens tab.
Click Connect a screen, and select the paired screen you want to display it on.

It will play in the Main zone of the screen, provided the screen already has a Layout assigned.

To learn how often the RSS content will appear on screen, see Automated Playback and Content Rotation in Creating Collections for Your Screens.

For the general steps that apply to any Feed source, see Setting Up and Connecting a Feed.

Managing What Shows on Screen

Once the Feed is connected, you have several ways to control which RSS items end up on screen, and to review or adjust them afterwards.

Filtering Incoming Posts with AI Instructions

Use AI Instructions to control what comes through from the feed before it reaches your screens. Write your own instruction or choose from the available templates to rewrite, filter, or translate items as they arrive. For an RSS feed, this could mean:

"Only show breaking news stories. Filter out features, opinion and long reads."
"Filter out opinion pieces, keep only factual news updates."
"Summarise long articles into a single headline and description suitable for a screen."
"Translate incoming articles from English to French."

You can test an instruction against your existing feed items before saving it, to see exactly which posts it would show or hide.

Managing Posts After They've Arrived

From the Collection's Posts view, you can manage individual posts the Feed has already created:

Hide a post to temporarily remove it from rotation without deleting it.
Show a hidden post again to bring it back into rotation.
Delete a post to remove it permanently.

Since the Feed only reads items from the RSS source, none of these actions change or remove the original content at the source. The connection is read-only.

Finding and Previewing Feed Posts

Every post the Feed creates appears in the Collection's Posts view alongside your manual posts, where you can filter the view by Feed of origin to see only the items pulled in from your RSS source. Each post also has its own Preview option, so you can check exactly how it'll look on screen before it plays.

See Connecting Feeds to Your Screens and Creating Posts for Your Screens for the full set of options available on posts created from a Feed.

What Content Does the Feed Pull?

The RSS Feed pulls the most recent items from your feed URL and displays them as posts on your screens. A few limits apply to what comes through.

Post limits

Volume: Up to 20 posts per feed instance are displayed at any one time.
Age: Posts older than 30 days are not shown, even if they are still present in the feed.

Media and attachments

The RSS Feed supports Media RSS (MRSS), which allows video and audio files from an MRSS feed to play on screen. Standard RSS feeds can also include images, which display as part of the post.

Popular RSS Feeds to Get You Started

If you're not sure where to start, here are some commonly used RSS feeds you can connect directly.

BBC News

Feed	URL
News Front Page	`https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml`
World News	`https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml`
UK News	`https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/uk/rss.xml`
England	`https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/england/rss.xml`
Northern Ireland	`https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/northern_ireland/rss.xml`
Scotland	`https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/scotland/rss.xml`
Wales	`https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/wales/rss.xml`
Business	`https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/business/rss.xml`
Politics	`https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/politics/rss.xml`
Health	`https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/health/rss.xml`
Science	`https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/science_and_environment/rss.xml`
Technology	`https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml`
Entertainment	`https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/entertainment_and_arts/rss.xml`
Sport	`https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/sport/rss.xml`

TechCrunch

Feed	URL
Main Feed (All News)	`https://techcrunch.com/feed/`
Alternative Main Feed	`https://feeds.feedburner.com/TechCrunch/`
Startups	`https://techcrunch.com/category/startups/feed/`
Venture (VC & Funding)	`https://techcrunch.com/category/venture/feed/`
Artificial Intelligence	`https://techcrunch.com/category/artificial-intelligence/feed/`
Apps	`https://techcrunch.com/category/apps/feed/`
Gadgets	`https://techcrunch.com/category/gadgets/feed/`
Security	`https://techcrunch.com/category/security/feed/`
Fintech	`https://techcrunch.com/category/fintech/feed/`
Hardware	`https://techcrunch.com/category/hardware/feed/`

Google News

Feed	URL
Top Stories (Front Page)	`https://news.google.com/rss?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en`
World News	`https://news.google.com/rss/headlines/section/topic/WORLD`
Business	`https://news.google.com/rss/headlines/section/topic/BUSINESS`
Technology	`https://news.google.com/rss/headlines/section/topic/TECHNOLOGY`
Entertainment	`https://news.google.com/rss/headlines/section/topic/ENTERTAINMENT`
Sports	`https://news.google.com/rss/headlines/section/topic/SPORTS`
Science	`https://news.google.com/rss/headlines/section/topic/SCIENCE`
Health	`https://news.google.com/rss/headlines/section/topic/HEALTH`

ESPN

Feed	URL
Sport Top Page	`https://www.espn.com/espn/rss/soccer/eng.1/news`
NBA	`https://www.espn.com/espn/rss/nba/news`
NFL	`https://www.espn.com/espn/rss/nfl/news`
NHL	`https://www.espn.com/espn/rss/nhl/news`
College Football	`https://www.espn.com/espn/rss/ncf/news`
College Basketball (Men)	`https://www.espn.com/espn/rss/ncb/news`
College Basketball (Women)	`https://www.espn.com/espn/rss/ncw/news`
General College Sports (ESPNU)	`https://www.espn.com/espn/rss/espnu/news`

CBC

Feed	URL
Top Stories	`https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-topstories`
World	`https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-world`
Canada	`https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-canada`
Politics	`https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-politics`
Business	`https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-business`
Health	`https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-health`
Technology	`https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-technology`
Arts & Entertainment	`https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-arts`
Indigenous News	`https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-Indigenous`
Sports (Main)	`https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-sports`
NHL	`https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-sports-nhl`
NBA	`https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-sports-nba`
MLB	`https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-sports-mlb`
CFL	`https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-sports-cfl`
Soccer	`https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-sports-soccer`
British Columbia	`https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-canada-britishcolumbia`
Toronto	`https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-canada-toronto`
Montreal	`https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-canada-montreal`
Calgary	`https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-canada-calgary`
North (Territories)	`https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-canada-north`

Global News

Feed	URL
Top Stories (National)	`https://globalnews.ca/feed/`
World	`https://globalnews.ca/world/feed/`
Politics	`https://globalnews.ca/politics/feed/`
Business	`https://globalnews.ca/business/feed/`
Health	`https://globalnews.ca/health/feed/`
Technology	`https://globalnews.ca/tech/feed/`
Entertainment	`https://globalnews.ca/entertainment/feed/`
Lifestyle	`https://globalnews.ca/lifestyle/feed/`
Money/Consumer	`https://globalnews.ca/money/feed/`
Toronto	`https://globalnews.ca/toronto/feed/`
BC / Vancouver	`https://globalnews.ca/bc/feed/`
Calgary	`https://globalnews.ca/calgary/feed/`
Edmonton	`https://globalnews.ca/edmonton/feed/`
Montreal	`https://globalnews.ca/montreal/feed/`
Halifax	`https://globalnews.ca/halifax/feed/`
Winnipeg	`https://globalnews.ca/winnipeg/feed/`
Saskatchewan	`https://globalnews.ca/saskatchewan/feed/`

Changing How Your Feed Appears on Screen

Posts created by the RSS Feed pick up the Theme applied to the screen they play on, including its light or dark mode. See Creating a Theme for Your Screens for how to customize the look of your posts.

FAQ

Does the RSS Feed support video and audio files?

Yes. The RSS Feed supports Media RSS (MRSS), which allows video or audio files from an MRSS feed to play on screen.

I can't find the RSS feed URL for the blog or site I want to show.

It is the responsibility of the blog or website owner to publish an RSS feed. However, if your are not able to find this in the blog, website, or news sources search, try the following:

Open the blog or website of your choice.
On the webpage, right-click and select Show page source.
Press Ctrl + F (Windows) or Command + F (Mac) to open the search bar.
Type RSS and hit enter. This should take you directly to, or highlight, the RSS feed URL of that page, which you can copy and paste into Arc.

For example, searching the TechCrunch source code would reveal a URL such as https://techcrunch.com/comments/feed.

If you want content from a specific category rather than the general feed — for example, TechCrunch's cryptocurrency coverage — the same steps will surface a category-specific URL such as https://techcrunch.com/category/cryptocurrency/feed/.

What can I do if the RSS Feed is not displaying as expected?

Verify the URL actually contains an RSS feed. Some links may look like feed URLs but do not include feed data.
Test the URL directly in a browser or with rssboard.org/rss-validator to confirm it is a valid, functional feed before adding it to Arc.
Check that the feed has been updated recently. If it only shows old content, the source may no longer be actively publishing to it.