Feed blocks

Feed blocks provide the possibility to display the contents of any RSS feed inside a responsive document.

{
    "from" : "info@example.com",
    "subject" : "Email with a feed block",
    "content" : {
        "blocks" : [ {
            "type" : "feed",
            "url" : "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml"
        } ]
    }
}

The only - obviously - required option for this block is of course the url property. This property must point to the URI of a valid RSS feed.

This will create a feed block using all default settings. For each article a heading block and html block is created. If the article contains an image, an image block is also created.

For each of these blocks, default properties can be given. To change the default properties for the heading block, create a heading object within your JSON. All properties valid for the heading block can be given here, although the content property will of course be filled with the title of the article. Similarly, the default properties for the html block and image block can be overwritten by adding a html and image object to the JSON respectively. For the html block, the content property will be filled with the content of the article, and for the image block the src and link property will be filled with the source URI and article link, respectively.

{
    "from" : "info@example.com",
    "subject" : "Email with a feed block",
    "content" : {
        "blocks" : [ {
            "type" : "feed",
            "url" : "http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition.rss",
            "image" : {
                "align" : "center"
            },
            "html" : {
                "margin" : {
                    "top" : 10
                }
            }
        } ]
    }
}

In addition to changing properties of the different blocks, it is also possible to change the order of the blocks as well as disable certain blocks completely, by using the blocks property. If this property is given, it must be an array with the desired blocks, in the preferred order. The following example would exclude any images that might be availeble in the article.

{
    "from" : "info@example.com",
    "subject" : "Email with a feed block",
    "content" : {
        "blocks" : [ {
            "type" : "feed",
            "url" : "http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition.rss",
            "blocks" : [ "heading", "html" ]
        } ]
    }
}

The following properties are supported:

Feed block properties