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Feedly Zapier integrationAutomate Feedly with Zapier.

The Feedly Zapier integration gives you 9 triggers and 3 actions, with 0 searches. Six of those triggers are instant, which means your reading habits in Feedly can start a Zap the second they happen, even on the free plan.

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Overview

What the Feedly Zapier integration actually does

It links your Feedly account to Zapier so that something you do in Feedly (saving, highlighting, prioritizing, adding to a board) or something Feedly finds for you (a new article in a feed or an AI feed) starts a Zap. A Zap is the automation you build on Zapier: one starting event, then one or more steps that run on their own each time.

Three outcomes cover most of what people build with it. First, a reading list that fills itself: an AI feed spots a relevant article, and Add Article to Board files it on the board your team reads. Second, a research trail outside Feedly: New Highlight and New Note push what you marked while reading to the tool where you write. Third, a source list that grows from elsewhere: a page address arrives from another app, and Subscribe to Feed adds it to your subscriptions.

Now what Zapier does not do here. There is no search step for Feedly, so a Zap cannot look up an article, a board or a feed that already exists. There is no action to delete, unsubscribe, edit a note or remove an article from a board. And no trigger reacts to a feed you just followed: the triggers watch articles, notes and highlights, not your subscriptions.

If you are weighing tools, the same app has a Feedly Make integration page, and the Make vs Zapier comparison sets the two tools side by side.

Vocabulary

Zapier vocabulary in one minute

Seven words come back on every line of this page. Here is what each one means in plain terms.

Trigger
The event in Feedly that starts the Zap, such as a new highlight. Once the Zap is switched on, Zapier waits for it.
Action
What the Zap does after it starts: the step that writes, files or subscribes something for you in an app.
Task
What Zapier bills you for. One task is one action that completed successfully. Your plan counts these and nothing else.
Polling trigger
A trigger Zapier checks on a timer. It asks Feedly for recent items at a set interval and keeps only the ones it has not seen.
Instant trigger
A trigger Feedly reports on its own: it calls Zapier as soon as the event happens, so nothing waits for the next check.
Filter
A step that lets the Zap carry on only when what arrived matches your condition, and stops it quietly otherwise.
Multi-step Zap
Any Zap with more than one trigger and one action. A second action or a filter turns it into one, and that needs a paid plan.
Cost

What a Feedly Zap really costs

Feedly is not a premium app on Zapier, so it works from the free plan. The bill is counted in tasks, and the rules are simpler than they look.

  • Free plan100 tasks a month, unlimited Zaps, two-step Zaps only
  • BilledEach action that succeeds, one task each
  • Not billedThe trigger, the checks, and actions that fail
  • Instant triggers6 of the 9 Feedly triggers ignore the interval below

The trigger never costs a task, and neither does Zapier checking Feedly for new articles, however often it looks. Only an action that goes through is counted, whatever it does in Feedly. Add three actions and a run costs three tasks; an action that fails costs nothing. The catch is the free plan: two steps only, one trigger and one action. Put a filter in front of Add Article to Board and you are on a paid plan.

Connect

Connect your Feedly account in three steps

  1. 01

    Open the Apps page

    In your Zapier account, go to Apps and click + Add connection. Type Feedly in the search box of the dialog and select it. A connection is your Feedly account linked once, then reused by every Zap that touches Feedly.

  2. 02

    Sign in to Feedly

    Click Add connection. A new tab opens on Feedly: sign in with the account whose folders, boards and feeds you want the Zap to use. If you read Feedly on several accounts, pick the one that owns the boards.

  3. 03

    Grant access

    Allow Zapier to act on the account. That is all the setup there is. You need a Feedly account, plus read or write rights on any folder or board that belongs to someone else and that the Zap should touch.

First Zap

Your first Zap: AI feed finds go straight to the team board

GoalAn AI feed tracks a topic for a marketing team. Each article it surfaces is filed on a shared board, but only when the field you pick from the test holds the keyword you choose.

  1. 01

    Build the trigger

    Click Build, choose Feedly and the New AI Feed Article event, pick your connection, then select the AI feed the Zap should watch.

  2. 02

    Test the trigger

    Run Test. Zapier brings back the three most recent articles from that AI feed, so you map the next steps on a real one instead of a guess.

  3. 03

    Add the filter

    Add a Filter step from the plus icon. Pick one of the fields the test brought back, a text rule, and your keyword. A text rule only works on text, so check the field really holds text.

  4. 04

    Add the action

    Add Feedly with Add Article to Board. Pick the board. Url is required too: map into it the value from the test that holds the article address, and if no field holds one, this action cannot run.

  5. 05

    Publish

    Test the action once, check the article really landed on the board, then click Publish. The filter makes this a paid-plan Zap.

Triggers

The 9 Feedly triggers, one by one

9 events start a Zap when something happens in Feedly, and 6 of them are instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.

1

New Note

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when you add a new note to an article.”

Starts a Zap the moment you write a note on an article in Feedly. Your reading comments stop living only inside the reader and become material another tool can pick up.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan.
When to use it
you annotate industry articles while preparing a newsletter, and every comment should arrive in the doc or notes app where you draft the issue.
Watch out
it reacts to new notes only, so rewording an old note later will not start anything.
2

New Article in Folder

Polling trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new article is published in a Feedly folder.”

Watches one of your Feedly folders and fires when a new article is published in any feed sitting inside it. One trigger covers a whole group of sources at once.

How it fires
Zapier goes and looks at regular intervals, and how often depends on your plan: every 15 minutes on the free one.
When to use it
a product team keeps a folder of competitor blogs and wants each new post logged in the spreadsheet they review together.
Watch out
the Folder field is required, so the folder must exist in Feedly before you set up the step.
3

New Article in Feed

Polling trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new article is published in a feed (RSS, AI feed, website feed etc).”

Follows a single source, such as an RSS feed, a website feed or an AI feed, and fires on each new article published there. It is the narrow version of the folder trigger.

How it fires
Zapier goes and looks at regular intervals, and how often depends on your plan: every 15 minutes on the free one.
When to use it
a regulatory site or a supplier's changelog matters more than everything else you read, and you want its posts routed on their own.
Watch out
the Source field is required, and it expects the feed you want watched, so pick the right one when several look alike.
4

New Priority Article

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when an article is prioritized.”

Fires when Feedly marks an article as a priority. You choose which priority the Zap listens to, which lets you split urgent signals from the rest.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan.
When to use it
a PR team flags priority articles about the brand and wants the person on duty alerted without opening Feedly.
Watch out
with “Any Priority” selected, an article that falls under two priorities starts the Zap once for each one, so the same article can come through twice.
5

New Article Saved for Later

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when new article is saved in "Read Later".”

Reacts each time you save an article to Read Later. The gesture you already make while scanning headlines becomes the start of a workflow.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan.
When to use it
you save long reads during the day and want each one turned into a to-do in your task manager so it gets a slot in your week.
Watch out
only articles saved after the Zap is published count; your existing Read Later backlog stays where it is.
6

New Article in Board

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when an article is added to a board.”

Fires when an article is added to a Feedly board. Boards are where teams gather what they want to share, so this trigger is the natural exit door of a shared reading list.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan.
When to use it
an analyst team curates a board for sales, and each addition should appear in the channel where account managers look for talking points.
Watch out
do not pair it with Add Article to Board on the same board, or the Zap feeds itself.
7

New Highlight

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when you add a new highlight to an article.”

Whenever you highlight a passage in an article, this one kicks off a Zap. It turns the most selective thing you do while reading into structured input.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan.
When to use it
a consultant builds a quote bank for client reports and wants every highlighted passage appended to a running research document.
Watch out
each highlight is a separate run, so a heavy reading session can add up to many tasks on the action side.
8

New Popular Article in Folder

Polling trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new popular article is published in a Feedly folder.”

Fires on new articles in a Feedly folder that Feedly considers popular, rather than on everything. It trims the volume before the Zap even starts.

How it fires
Zapier goes and looks at regular intervals, and how often depends on your plan: every 15 minutes on the free one.
When to use it
a founder follows a large folder of tech news and only wants the stories that are getting traction sent to a digest.
Watch out
the Feed field is required, so choose the source to watch before the step will test.
9

New AI Feed Article

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new article is found in an AI feed”

Fires when one of your Feedly AI feeds finds a new article. The selection work is done by Feedly; the Zap only decides where the result goes.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan.
When to use it
a market intelligence lead runs an AI feed on a competitor's product launches and wants each find posted for the team.
Watch out
the AI Feed field is required, so the AI feed must be set up in Feedly first.
Actions

The 3 Feedly actions

Feedly gives you 3 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

1

Add Article to Board

Action

In Zapier“Add an article to a board from a URL.”

Takes an article address and files it on one of your boards. You give it a link, Feedly does the rest.

When to use it
links collected in another tool should be gathered on one board your readers already check.
Watch out
both Board and Url are required, so the earlier step must hand over a real article address.
2

Create New Article

Action

In Zapier“Save a new article in a board.”

Saves a fresh article into a board you pick, built from whatever your Zap passes in. It is how content from outside Feedly ends up next to what you read there.

When to use it
a teammate posts an interesting link in a form, and it should sit on the team board with the rest.
Watch out
the Board field is required.
3

Subscribe to Feed

Action

In Zapier“Adds a new feed subscription to Feedly.”

Adds a new source to your Feedly subscriptions from a page address. The page can hold an RSS feed, point to one, or be a YouTube channel.

When to use it
new partner blogs listed in your CRM should start showing up in your reading without anyone subscribing by hand.
Watch out
the Url field is required.
When it breaks

When a Feedly Zap breaks

Zapier attaches no help article to Feedly, and no Feedly-specific limit is documented. What goes wrong comes from how Zaps behave in general.

Four situations account for the surprises. Each one is avoidable once you know it is there. If a Zap still misbehaves, the Zapier troubleshooting page is the place to start.

  • Your backlog is not picked up

    A Zap only reacts to what happens after you publish it. Articles already saved, highlighted or on a board before that stay put; moving them is a separate job.

  • A board that feeds itself

    New Article in Board plus Add Article to Board on the same board: each addition starts the Zap again, which adds again. Point the action at a different board.

  • Duplicates on Any Priority

    When New Priority Article listens to any priority, an article under two priorities runs the Zap twice. Choose one priority per Zap if duplicates hurt.

  • A sudden flood is held back

    After a bulk change, a trigger that returns a huge batch at once can be held by Zapier's flood protection instead of running everything.
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FAQ

Feedly and Zapier: frequent questions

01Is the Feedly Zapier integration free?
Yes, Feedly is not a premium app on Zapier, so it works on the free plan. That plan gives you 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, but each Zap is limited to two steps: one trigger and one action. The moment you add a filter or a second action, for example to keep only some AI feed articles, the Zap becomes multi-step and needs a paid plan. Check the plan before you add that filter.
02How many tasks does a Feedly Zap use?
One task per action that succeeds, and nothing for the trigger. Zapier does not bill the checks it makes on Feedly either, however often they happen. So a Zap that files each AI feed article on a board costs one task per article filed. If the same Zap also sends an alert, that is two tasks per article. An action that fails is not counted, which means a broken Zap will not eat your quota, it just stops doing its job.
03Is the Feedly Zapier integration real time?
For six triggers, yes. New Note, New Priority Article, New Article Saved for Later, New Article in Board, New Highlight and New AI Feed Article are instant: Feedly tells Zapier the moment it happens, whatever your plan. The three others, New Article in Folder, New Article in Feed and New Popular Article in Folder, are polling triggers. Zapier checks them on a timer: every 15 minutes on Free, every 2 minutes on Professional, every minute on Team and Enterprise.
04What does it take to connect Feedly to Zapier?
A Feedly account and a Zapier account. You add the connection from the Apps page in Zapier, sign in to Feedly in the tab that opens, then grant access. If a Zap should touch folders or boards that belong to someone else, the account you connect needs read or write rights on them. Folders, boards and AI feeds used by the steps must already exist in Feedly, because those fields are required.
05Why would a Feedly Zap run twice for the same article?
Most likely because New Priority Article is set to Any Priority. When one article falls under two priorities, the trigger fires once for each, and the Zap runs twice. The fix is to set one priority per Zap. Another cause is a loop: a Zap that adds articles to the very board its trigger watches will restart itself on each addition. Point the action at another board to stop it.
06What if the Feedly operation you need is not in Zapier?
Then the Zap cannot do it directly. On Zapier, Feedly offers 9 triggers and 3 actions and no search step, so there is no way to look up an existing article, unsubscribe from a feed or remove something from a board. Two routes remain: rethink the workflow around the operations that exist, for example saving to a board instead of editing, or check whether another automation tool exposes the Feedly operation the workflow depends on.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for Feedly?
It depends on the criterion, not on a ranking. On Zapier, Feedly brings 9 triggers, 6 of them instant on notes, highlights, priorities and boards, plus 3 actions and no search step. If those operations cover the workflow, Zapier does the job from the free plan, as long as each Zap stays at one trigger and one action. If the workflow needs to find, edit or remove something in Feedly, check which Feedly operations Make and n8n expose before choosing. The tool your team already uses is also a fair criterion.
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