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title: Usage example - External RSS feed
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k12sp/developing-websites/loading-and-displaying-data-on-websites/setting-up-syndication-feeds/usage-example-cms-rss-feed.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k12sp/developing-websites/loading-and-displaying-data-on-websites/setting-up-syndication-feeds/usage-example-rss-feed-+-data-source.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k12sp/developing-websites/loading-and-displaying-data-on-websites/setting-up-syndication-feeds/usage-example-rss-repeater-+-data-source.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

In addition to creating RSS feeds for Kentico content, you can also use external RSS feeds (i.e. feeds published on other websites) as a source of data and display the data on your website.

The following example demonstrates how to use the **RSS data source** and **Basic repeater** web parts to display content of an external feed on your website. The example uses the main article feed from Kentico DevNet: <http://devnet.kentico.com/rss/articles>

Add the  **RSS data source** web part onto your site:

1. Open the **Pages** application.
2. Select the root of your website's content tree.
3. Click **New** () above the content tree and create a page of the **Page (menu item) type**.
4. Type _External RSS_ into the **Page name** field and choose **Create a blank page**.
5. Click **Save**.
   - The system creates the page and selects it in the content tree.
6. Switch to the **Design** tab.
7. [Add](https://docs.kentico.com/k12sp/developing-websites/developing-websites-using-portal-engine/using-and-configuring-web-parts.md) the **RSS data source** web part onto the page.
8. Enter the following values into the **Web part properties** dialog:
   - **Web part control ID**: KenticoBlogsRSS (this ID will be used to connect the repeater that displays the data)
   - **RSS feed URL**: http://devnet.kentico.com/rss/articles (this is the URL of the external RSS feed)
9. Leave the rest of the properties at their default values and click **Save & Close**.

Add the second web part:

1. On the **Design** tab, add the **Basic repeater** web part onto the page.
2. Configure the web part's properties as follows:
   - **Data source name**: KenticoBlogsRSS
   - **Transformation name**: click **New** and create a new transformation with the code below.

     ```html

     <h2>
       <a href="<%# Eval("link")%>">
       <%# Eval("title") %>
       </a>
     </h2>
     <p>
       <strong>Published</strong>: <%# Eval("pubdate") %>
     </p>
     <p>
       <%# Eval("description") %>
     </p>
     <br/>

     ```

     > **Info:** The transformation code transforms the _link_, _pubdate_ and _description_ elements of each record provided by the feed. Content of the elements is retrieved using the **Eval** method, with the element name specified as the parameter.
3. Leave the rest of the web part properties at their default values and click **Save & Close**.

On the **Design** tab, you can see the web parts.

![RSS data source and Basic repeater web parts on the Design tab](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k12sp/usage-example-external-rss-feed/External_Feed_WebParts.png "RSS data source and Basic repeater web parts on the Design tab")

If you switch to the live site and view the new page, you can see the content of the RSS feed.

![The output of the external feed on the live site](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k12sp/usage-example-external-rss-feed/External_Feed_Result.png "The output of the external feed on the live site")