Watch Any Feed. No Login Required.
Flywheel now reads any RSS or Atom feed, and Reddit through its public feeds, with nothing to connect. Two new workers ship with it: a living feed digest on your canvas, and an AI assistant that finds Reddit posts worth replying to and drafts them in your voice.
Every integration we've shipped so far asks for something first: an OAuth screen, an API key, a token to paste. That's the tax on connecting a tool. Then there's RSS, the quiet protocol that never went away. A blog, a changelog, a newsroom, a subreddit, a YouTube channel: most of the web still publishes a feed, and a feed needs no password.
So Flywheel now speaks it. Paste a feed URL and a workflow can read it. No account, no consent screen, no secret to rotate. And because Reddit exposes every subreddit and search as a feed, the same primitive gives you Reddit monitoring without ever touching Reddit's API.
What You Can Do
RSS reads a public feed with no auth, so there is no connection step at all. Drop a read node on the canvas, paste one or more feed URLs, and run it. The one integration you'll set up in seconds.
RSS 2.0 or Atom, one feed or a dozen at once. Each item lands as a clean record: title, link, author, published date, summary, and body. Incremental by default, so a scheduled run only picks up what's new since last time.
Read a subreddit (or several at once) by name, or run a keyword search across Reddit. No app to register, no account to link. Flywheel builds the right .rss URL for you and hands back posts as records.
Once a feed is records, the rest of Flywheel applies. Have an AI node summarize, score, or classify each item. Filter, route, and collect. Render a digest, or send the interesting ones to Slack. The feed is just the front door.
Two Workers, Ready to Clone
The same read primitive powers two very different jobs: one passive, one active. Both ship as cloneable templates. Both are yours to edit on the canvas after you clone them.
Point it at any feed and it renders the latest posts as a clean digest right on your workflow canvas. A competitor's blog, a product changelog, an industry newsletter, a subreddit: it refreshes on a schedule, so you get a living radar of what just published without checking a dozen sites by hand. The setup is a single question: which feed? No accounts, no dashboards to log into. Just the headlines that matter, where you already work.
View the RSS Feed Digest template
Reddit is where people ask for tool recommendations, compare options, and vent about the thing you make a better version of. This worker scans the subreddits you pick for posts worth a genuine reply, decides which are actually worth engaging, and drafts a response in your voice. Every few hours it quietly builds a queue.
Then you review. A widget on the canvas shows each opportunity with the draft reply, an Open Thread link, and a Copy button. You edit what you want, copy it, and post it on Reddit yourself, then mark it done. Nothing is auto-posted. The AI does the watching and the writing; the judgment call and the actual reply stay with you, which is exactly how Reddit should be done.
View the Reddit Marketing Worker template
What Public Feeds Can and Can't Do
Reading a public feed means playing by the feed's rules, and we'd rather tell you the edges up front. Reddit's .rss carries the post itself (title, author, body, link) but no engagement signal: no score, no comment count, no upvote ratio, no flair. So the worker ranks opportunities on what a post says, not on how it's performing. In practice that's fine for finding genuine questions to answer, and it's the honest trade for needing zero setup.
And feeds are read-only. Flywheel can watch Reddit, but it can't post for you. That's a big part of why the Reddit worker keeps a human in the loop: you copy the draft and reply yourself, which also keeps you inside Reddit's norms instead of automating your way into a ban.
Getting Started
Clone either template and a short wizard asks for the one or two things only you know. For the digest, that's the feed URL. For the Reddit worker, it's the subreddits to watch and a couple of sentences about your product so the drafts sound like you. Not sure where a site's feed lives? The wizard will suggest the usual paths (/feed, /rss, or for Reddit /r/name/.rss). Everything the wizard writes is editable on the canvas afterward.