RSS feeds
Every marketplace publishes RSS feeds of its newest listings, per category and location, plus the blog and forum. Use them to share listings automatically.
An RSS feed is a machine-readable list of your newest content. People can follow it in a feed reader, and, more usefully for you, other tools can read it to do something every time a listing is posted: share it on social media, send it to a Slack or Telegram channel, or show it on a partner’s website. Your marketplace publishes feeds out of the box; there is nothing to switch on.
Your feeds
Replace yoursite.com with your own address.
| Feed | Address |
|---|---|
| Newest listings on the whole site | yoursite.com/rss.xml |
| Newest listings in one category | yoursite.com/rss/cars.xml |
| Newest listings in a category and location | yoursite.com/rss/cars/london.xml |
| Newest listings in one location, any category | yoursite.com/rss/all/london.xml |
| One seller’s listings | yoursite.com/user/sellername.xml |
| Blog posts (with the Blog add-on on) | yoursite.com/rss/blog.xml |
| Forum topics (with the Forums add-on on) | yoursite.com/rss/forum.xml, or yoursite.com/rss/forum/forum-name.xml for one forum |
Use the same words that appear in the address of your category, location or seller page: open the category on your
site and copy the last part of its address. On a site in another language, the word all is translated, just like
in your category addresses.
Each listing in a feed has its title, a link, the publish date, its location and its description as plain text, with the first photo when it has one.
Browsers and feed readers find the right feed on their own: every page of your site announces the feeds that match it.
How many listings a feed shows
Go to Listings › Settings › Listing pages and set Listings in RSS, then click Save changes. A small number (10–20) is plenty for automations, which check the feed often.
Ideas for using your feeds
- Post new listings to social media. Tools such as IFTTT, Zapier, Make, dlvr.it or Buffer can watch a feed and post each new item to a Facebook page, X, LinkedIn or a Telegram channel. For direct posting from Yclas, see Auto-post listings to social media.
- Niche channels. Run a separate channel per category (“New jobs in Leeds”) from the category and location feeds.
- Partner websites. A local newspaper, club or business association can show your newest listings on their site with an RSS widget, which links back to you.
- Keep an eye on your site. Follow your own feed in a reader to see new listings as they come in.
Things to know
- Feeds only show published listings.
- A category feed shows listings filed directly in that category, not those in its subcategories. Use the feed of the subcategory, or the whole-site feed.
- Private sites and sites in maintenance mode don’t serve feeds to the public.
Related guides
- Auto-post listings to social media — post from Yclas directly.
- Promote your marketplace — more ways to bring visitors in.
- Newsletters and subscribers — reach members by email.
Updated 7 October 2026 · Suggest an edit