How to Set Up an RSS Feed to Post on Facebook

You can sign up for a free IFTTT account instantly through an existing Google or Facebook account, or alternatively do it the old fashioned way via email address.

Once signed up, sign into your account.

Select My Applets in the top menu followed by the black New Applet button.

IFTTT will start you off with the set-up process by asking you to select an "if this" app for your applet, which in this case is the RSS feed because it's the app that's going to trigger another app (which will be Facebook).

Select the blue +if this link in the middle of the page.

On the following page, select the orange RSS feed button in the grid of app buttons beneath the search bar. You'll be asked to choose between two different RSS feed triggers:

New feed item: Select this one if you want all of your RSS updates to post to Facebook.

New feed item matches: Select this one if you only want RSS updates containing specific keywords to post to Facebook.

For the sake of keeping this tutorial simple, we'll choose New feed item, but you can choose whichever option you want. Both are very easy to set up.

If you choose New feed item, you'll be asked to simply enter your RSS feed URL into the given field. If you choose New feed item matches, you'll be asked to enter both a list of keywords or simple phrases along with your RSS feed URL.

Select the Create trigger button when you're done.

On the next page, you'll be asked to select your "then that" app, which in this case is Facebook because it's the app that will be triggered to create an automated action. Select the blue +then that link in the middle of the page. 

Next, use the search bar to search for "Facebook or "Facebook page." Alternatively, scroll down and select either the blue Facebook button or the blue Facebook Pages button, depending on whether you want your RSS feed updates posted to your profile or a page that you manage.

If you want them posted to your profile, select the regular blue Facebook button. Otherwise if you're posting to a page, select the blue Facebook Pages button.

In this tutorial, we're going to select the regular blue Facebook button to have it post to a profile.

For IFTTT to be able to auto-post to your Facebook profile or page, you'll have to give it permission by connecting your account to it first. Select the blue Connect button to do this.

Next, you'll be given three different options for the type of post that IFTTT will create for Facebook:

Create a status message: Choose this one if you're fine with your RSS posts being posted as a status. Facebook detects links in posts anyways, so it will likely show up almost exactly as a link post.

Create a link post: Choose this one if you know you want to highlight the post link in your Facebook post.

Upload a photo from URL: Choose this one if you feel confident in the images contained in the post and want to highlight them as photo posts on Facebook, with the link contained in the photo caption.

For this tutorial, we're going to choose Create a link post.

IFTTT conveniently gives you the opportunity to customize the setup of your Facebook post using various "ingredients" such as title, URL and more.

You can take ingredients out if you like or add new ones by clicking on the Add ingredient button, but IFTTT will contain basic ingredients such as the EntryURL (the main URL of the post) already in the given fields.

You can also type plain text in the message field, such as "New blog post!" or something similar to let your friends or fans know that your post is a recent update. This is totally optional.

Select the Create Action button when you're done.