RSS and sitemap integration

RSS to Pinterest, for any blog platform

If your blog has an RSS feed or a sitemap, it works with Bloomtack. Paste the address once, and new posts turn into pin drafts in your review queue within the hour.

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RSS and Atom feeds

Most blog platforms publish a feed of the latest posts, often at an address like /feed, /rss or /rss.xml. Bloomtack checks it every hour and reads each post’s title, link, description and images.

Feeds usually carry a summary rather than the whole article. For each new post, Bloomtack opens the post’s page to read its headings, which become list and step pins.

A feed shows only your most recent posts. To bring in older ones as well, add your sitemap too.

Sitemaps

A sitemap lists every page on your site, so it’s the way to bring in a whole archive. Bloomtack reads the sitemap index, then fetches the post pages and takes the readable article, the Open Graph tags and the headings.

Sitemaps are checked every hour, so new posts that appear in them are picked up without a feed.

Pages are fetched politely: robots.txt is respected, at most one request a second goes to your site, and the crawler identifies itself as BloomtackBot.

Where to find your feed or sitemap

Paste your blog’s home page address and Bloomtack looks for a feed on its own, including sitemaps listed in your robots.txt. If it can’t find one, these are the usual places:

WordPress: /feed and /wp-sitemap.xml, or the sitemap from your SEO plugin. The plugin is the fuller option.
Ghost: /rss and /sitemap.xml. See Ghost.
Shopify blogs: the blog’s .atom feed. See Shopify.
Other platforms: look for “RSS” or “feed” in your settings, or a sitemap.xml at the root of your site.

RSS and sitemap questions

Does my feed need to include the full article?

No. A summary feed is fine. Bloomtack reads the headings from each new post’s page.

Can Bloomtack read posts behind a login or paywall?

No. It reads public pages only, over HTTP and HTTPS, and skips anything your robots.txt asks crawlers not to read. Pins should link to pages your readers can open anyway.

Get your blog on Pinterest without the busywork.

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