Substack Gateway Following Feed
AI-generatedSummary
Polls the authenticated Substack Gateway user's Atom following feed and emits feed entries as n8n items. In scheduled polling, it can skip entries present on the first poll and uses stored timestamps and entry IDs to emit later discoveries.
Inputs
- Poll Times (required) — Sets the polling schedule, such as every minute, hour, day, week, month, every X minutes or hours, or a custom cron expression.
- Emit Only New Items — Defaults to true. On the first scheduled poll, skips existing feed entries; later polls emit entries newer than the stored checkpoint, including unseen entries at the checkpoint timestamp.
- Options.Maximum Entity Count — Maximum XML entities processed when parsing the feed; defaults to 10000.
- Options.Request Timeout — Feed request timeout in seconds; defaults to 900.
Output shape
A batch of feed entry items, or no output when there are no entries to emit.
Each item can include id, type, title, link, updated, published, author, and summary when available. IDs formatted as type:id are split into separate fields, with numeric IDs converted to numbers; note links may be constructed from the author URI. Manual execution returns all parsed entries without applying the new-item checkpoint. Scheduled polling stores its checkpoint in node workflow static data.
Examples
Example 1: Reading rows from a table
Base set to "Operations", Table set to "Queue", Return All enabled.