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Get a Telegram notification when an RSS feed publishes a new article

Who this is for: anyone following a blog, a news outlet, or a feed of deals/listings who wants to be notified on their phone right away when something new comes out, without checking the site by hand.

What the workflow does

n8n's RSS Feed Trigger node checks the feed at regular intervals and fires the workflow only for new articles — it tracks that on its own, no need to handle duplicates by hand. Each new article becomes a Telegram message with title and link.

Procedure

  1. Create a Telegram bot with @BotFather and save the token.
  2. Get your chat_id by calling https://api.telegram.org/bot<TOKEN>/getUpdates after messaging the bot.
  3. Download rss-telegram.json and import it into n8n.
  4. In the Nuovo articolo nel feed node, replace the feed URL with the one you want to follow.
  5. In the Invia su Telegram node, replace YOUR_BOT_TOKEN and YOUR_CHAT_ID.
  6. Activate the workflow.
Actually tested: activated on n8n against a real public RSS feed; the workflow correctly detected the article and sent the Telegram message with title and link, confirmed by the Telegram API's "ok": true response.

Note

If the feed publishes very rarely, the first activation may take a few minutes before the first check — that's normal node behavior, not an error.