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Is it possible to set up a rss feed for member only content?

Not sure if EE is the right place to ask this question, but I’m hoping you’ll have the answer for me—if not maybe you could give me a direction to head in :cheese:

Have you tried placing an IF/IFELSE comment around the feed content to test if_logged_in ?

Yep either what Chief said or you can protect the entire template with the template access prefs, so only certain member groups can view. Note that template type needs to be set to ‘RSS page’

Thank you both for your responses.

I have not actually tried anything yet, because I wasn’t sure if it was possible.  I don’t understand how the feed gets through if articles can’t be viewed unless the user is logged in.  When a person subscribes do they fill out a un and pw when they first set up the feed?  I subscribe to a lot of rss feeds, but none of them are members only content.

I appreciate the education!
cheers
jules

Hi, Jules. First question - what are you using to read your feeds?

Hi, Jules. First question - what are you using to read your feeds?

Me personally?  I bring in my feeds with my yahoo home page.

I know you didn’t ask for it, but in case it’s relevant below is my rss feed code.  I know if I included status=“public|members only|open” that the titles for the members only content would show up, but then if they clicked on the link they would end up with a 401 page.  This is not a desirable result. If this were a business I guess that would be a great marketing opportunity, but this is a religious site and they don’t want non-site members seeing links to member only content.  It would be nice for members to have a rss feed that showed content available to them, but I don’t see how this could be done. Which is why I posed the question. I thought with all the experience out there on the EE forum I could find out for sure what is and isn’t possible.

Thank you soooo much!
Jules

{preload_replace:master_channel_name="news"}
{exp:rss:feed channel="{master_channel_name}" status="public" debug="yes"}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="{encoding}"?>
<rss version="2.0"
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
    xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
    xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/"
    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
    xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
    xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/">

    <channel>
    
    <title>{site_name}</title>
    <link>{site_url}{channel_url}</link>
    <description>{channel_description}</description>
    <dc:language>{channel_language}</dc:language>
    <dc:creator>{email}</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights>Copyright {gmt_date format="%Y"}</dc:rights>
    <dc:date>{gmt_date format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%i:%s%Q"}</dc:date>
    <admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://expressionengine.com/" >
    <atom:link href="{site_url}site/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" >
    
{exp:channel:entries channel="{master_channel_name}" limit="10" dynamic_start="on" disable="member_data|pagination"}
    <item>
      <title>{title}</title>
      <link>{title_permalink='site/index'}</link>
      <guid>{title_permalink='site/index'}#When:{gmt_entry_date format="%H:%i:%sZ"}</guid>
      <description>{excerpt}</description>
      <dc:subject>{categories backspace="1"}{category_name}, {/categories}</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>{gmt_entry_date format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%i:%s%Q"}</dc:date>
    </item>
{/exp:channel:entries}
    
    </channel>
</rss>

{/exp:rss:feed}

Hi, WebbDiva - the answer is ... sorta.

I took one of my eehowto RSS feeds and set it to Enable HTTP Authentication?

And then I had to login twice, but it worked in Safari. Greg tested it in Firefox.. Does that help?