Add RSS Viewer Web Part In SharePoint Online

What is RSS?

  • Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is used for transmitting information across the internet and intranets
  • We can display the information from external sites by adding the RSS feed web part to the SharePoint page
  • We can use the RSS feed webpart to show the news, weather, etc.

Before adding the RSS viewer web part on the SharePoint page activate the below feature.

“SharePoint Server Standard Site Collection features.

SharePoint Server

Steps

Follow the below-listed steps to add an RSS viewer web part.

Step 1. Open your SharePoint site

SharePoint site

Step 2. Then open the SharePoint page where you want to add the RSS viewer web part.

 SharePoint page

Step 3. On the page select the page tab from the top ribbon bar as shown below

Top ribbon bar

Step 4. Click on Edit to add the web part.

 Edit

Step 5. Then click “Add a web part”, and select “Content Rollup” group from the categories section

Content Rollup

Step 6. Select the “RSS viewer” web part on the right side and click on the “Add” button.

RSS viewer

Step 7. After you click the ADD button “RSS Viewer” web part will be added to your page as shown below,

ADD button

Step 8. Then click the“OPEN THE TOOL PANE” link, you will get the web part properties and add the URL in the “RSS Feed URL” Text box as shown below.

RSS Feed URL

Step 9. Finally, Click the “OK” button and save the page to show the feeds on the page.

OK button

Successfully, the RSS feed web part was added to our page.

RSS feed web

Summary

In this article, we have explored what the RSS viewer web part is, how it’s used in SharePoint, and how to add in the SharePoint page