Hey everyone, Jason here from 404 Media. We’ve been trying to figure out how to offer our subscribers individual, full-text RSS feeds that can see behind paywalls and email registration walls, and is tied to their member status (i.e. the feed expires if a user unsubscribes). This is common for premium podcasts but less so for text websites.
After much searching we realized that this does not exist for Ghost, so we paid FeedPress and Outpost to build it for us. They will now offer the same integrations to other Ghost users. More details here:
For those interested, the Outpost portion controls memberships (adding, notifying, and removing), while FeedPress handles the creation of the feed, the individual urls, and monitoring for leakage. This integration requires a paid account with FeedPress.
When people sign up to the specified tier(s), Outpost tells FeedPress to create the individualized url. We then notify users via an email, on your site on an Advanced Settings Page available when they login, or both.
There is also a variable for the RSS feed that is available to use in the usual Outpost welcome email to subscribers
The integration does not share user email addresses to FeedPress.
We’re working on adding this to Flaming Hydra lickety split!
Thanks so much @Jason404media & @rsingel (& 404 + Outpost) for building, sponsoring, and then publicly releasing this feature.
One bug on Feedpost’s end: the “Subscribe to Feed” popup doesn’t actually include the correct links with private key. However, subscribing (in Reeder.app at least) to my private URL (even though it’s an HTML page) does? Will have to dig in more, but suspect some folks will have issues copying the provided feed links, as they just lead to 404.feed.press/private, with no key.
This is done in combo with FeedPress - they use an admin API key to get the full text and create a feed outside of Ghost. Then you can use DNS to have that feed live on a subdomain.
So I’ve stumbled on this page probably half a dozen times in the past year searching for this exact solution.
I switched from WordPress to Ghost recently, and couldn’t find any way to have private, RSS feeds for paid members.
It seems like 404 media has a solution, but it’s not publicly available.
Well, my friend Nathan Isaac and I wanted to create a solution that we could use for ourselves, and share with others. We’re working on the idea as we speak, setting up a simple solution that’s agnostic from Ghost or any other service, and you’ll own your subscriber base.
We call it Lochy.org (like the Loch Ness monster).
If anyone is curious we’d love beta testers, and your early feedback would be extremely welcome as we’re trying to shape this little product. Thanks so much!
I’m maybe misunderstanding this aspect to the thread, but I have managed to subscribe to my own paid-for Ghost posts, using an RSS reader.
I use Unread.app and when I added the basic RSS URL for all my published posts (most of which are paid-for) I was then able to login to my Ghost website as a paid subscriber, through the RSS reader interface itself.
I did this by going to Settings > Website accounts > Add a website account … and it took me through the usual Ghost login process, as a paid user.
To my delight, I now receive my own full articles (from behind the paywall) into my RSS reader, and if I can do it, others can too!
Is that what people are trying to do here, or have I misunderstood?
