Kill The Newsletter produces an atom feed that includes an HTML link, which allows the original post to be displayed on the browser. Does a similar link exist in the RSS feed from Zapier’s Email to RSS zap?
I can see links to various bits of code on the Zapier’s RSS feed, but nothing that looks like an HTML address.
Anyone?
Thanks.
+14Hi
Help links for using RSS Zap app: https://zapier.com/apps/rss/integrations#help
If you still need help, post screenshot to give us more context about what you are referring to.
If your RSS feed has a link, then that should come thru as a data point output for an item in the feed.
Each RSS feed has it’s own URL.
If you are creating an Item in the Feed, there is a field for Source URL.
Hi Troy
Thanks for responding so quickly :)
I’m using the “Email to RSS” zap to produce a summary of incoming emails (“Title”, “Author” & a thumbnail) which I am displaying on my website .
I’d like to be able to click on the summary and open up the original email content.
With Kill-the-newsletter, I can do this using the html link emboldened below.
With Zapier, I’m not sure how to generate a similar URL. I have the Feed URL for the whole feed, as you indicate above, but not the URL for each item.
‘Source URL’ looks promising, but I’ve looked through the possible fields that can be assigned to that link and don’t see anything that would produce a URL for each item.
Am I missing something obvious?
As a side issue, I regularly get alerts from Zapier advising The app returned "RSS item too large - must be smaller than 10240 bytes". I already have ‘truncate messages over 10KB’ enabled, so Is there anything I can do to reduce the RSS size? (NB: I’m searching the message body for image URLs as a source for the thumbnail on my website, so don’t want to destroy those URLs.)
KTN:
<entry>
<id>urn:kill-the-newsletter:tahr4xb7qjt2327wi0ko</id>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kill-the-newsletter.com/feeds/*myfeedID*/entries/tahr4xb7qjt2327wi0ko.html"/>
<published>2025-06-18T10:49:07.516Z</published>
<updated>2025-06-18T10:49:07.516Z</updated>
−<author>
<name>
msprvs1=20264B7RL_Te5=bounces-222165-2@e.change.org
</name>
<email>
msprvs1=20264B7RL_Te5=bounces-222165-2@e.change.org
</email>
</author>
<title>The Cult of Tidiness!!</title>
<content type="html">
Content…
</content>
</entry>
ZAPIER:
<item>
<title>The Cult of Tidiness!!</title>
−<link>
Source%20URL
</link>
</description>
Content…
</description>
−<author>
XXXXXX@X.XXXXXX.org ("XXXX XXXXXX via XXXXXX.org")
</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 10:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="false">XdJMrt70ANulCV1j</guid>
</item>
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+14
I believe you would need to provide the Source URL as Zapier won’t produce a URL for each Feed Item.
Help links for using RSS Zap app: https://zapier.com/apps/rss/integrations#help
+11Hey
Did Troy’s replies help to point you in the right direction, or are you still having some trouble?
Let us know how it’s going, want to make sure you’re all set! 🙂
Hey! By default, Zapier’s Email to RSS Zap doesn’t include a clean browser-viewable HTML link like Kill The Newsletter does. It typically pulls in the email content and metadata, but not a direct "view in browser" link.
If the original email includes a viewable link in the body, you can try extracting it using a Formatter step — otherwise, you’d need a workaround like saving the email to a web-accessible location (e.g. Google Docs or Webflow CMS) and linking that manually.
Let me know if you want help setting that up!
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