A rule checks new posts in the feeds you choose and acts on the ones that match your keywords. It can hide them, star them, add them to a collection or send them to another app. Rules need Plus ($7.99 a month billed yearly) or Professional ($14.99 per user a month billed yearly). Rules that post to other apps need Professional.
How do I create a rule?
- Select Rules in the left sidebar, then New rule. For one feed, you can also right-click it, choose Edit feed, open the Rules tab and select Create rule.
- Under What should happen?, choose an action from the table below.
- Under Select feeds, pick feeds, folders or All feeds.
- Under Match posts that, choose Contain or Don't contain and type your keywords. With no keywords, the rule acts on every new post.
- Check the Posts preview, then select Save rule.
Rules act on posts that arrive after you save. Posts already in Feeder stay as they are.
What can a rule do, and which plan does it need?
| Action | What it does | Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Filter posts | Keeps the posts that match and hides the rest | Plus |
| Star posts | Stars matching posts | Plus |
| Mark as read | Marks matching posts as read | Plus |
| Highlight | Highlights words you choose in matching posts | Plus |
| Add to collection | Saves matching posts to a collection | Plus |
| Translate posts | Translates matching posts. Each one uses a daily translation: 10 a day on Plus | Plus |
| Filter duplicates | Hides posts with the same link or title as an earlier one | Professional |
| Post to Slack, Post to Microsoft Teams, Post to Discord, Post to Telegram | Sends matching posts to a channel or chat | Professional |
| Post to Webhook | Sends matching posts to your own app | Professional |
| Zapier | Opens Zapier, where you build the zap | Professional |
Setup guides: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram and webhooks.
On Free, the Rules page offers Upgrade. Rules you made on a paid plan are kept but don't run: they show Needs a paid plan to run and start again when you upgrade.
How do keywords work?
- Any keywords matches posts with at least one of them. All keywords matches only posts with every one.
- Tick where to look: in title, in summary and in URL. The first two are on by default. The summary is the text the feed sends with each post: a word that appears only in the full article on the website won't match.
- Keywords match whole words in any capitalization. Select Aa on a keyword to match its exact capitalization.
- To add a list, paste the words separated by commas.
Phrases and wildcards are in How keyword matching works in Rules.
Can I use OR between conditions?
Yes. Select Add condition to add another set of keywords, then choose AND (a post must match every condition) or OR (one condition is enough). For example, one rule can match "merger" in the title or summary, OR "AES" in the title only.
Can different feeds have different keywords?
Yes. Make one rule per feed or folder, each with its own keywords. A rule on a folder also covers feeds you add to that folder later, and All feeds covers every feed you follow.
Example: to hide job postings from a few feeds, create a Filter posts rule on them with Don't contain and keywords such as jobs, hiring and vacancy. Tick in URL too if the site's job links contain /jobs/.
Common questions
Where do filtered posts go?
They're hidden, not deleted. Above the post list, open Filters and tick Filtered under Include to see them.
Can I get notified only about matches?
Yes. Add a Filter posts rule to the feed and turn on notifications for that feed: Feeder doesn't notify you about posts a filter hides. See Get notifications for new posts.
Do my rules work for my teammates?
No, rules are personal. In a feed's Rules tab, Rules your teammates have for this feed lists theirs, and Copy rule makes your own copy.
Still stuck? E-mail support@feeder.co with the rule's name and a post it should have matched, and we'll help.