Folders let you hand-pick articles into named collections. Every folder gets its own RSS feed, and you can wire a folder to a webhook so anything you drop in is delivered straight to your own app.
Tags follow a whole topic automatically. A folder is the opposite: it is a small collection you curate by hand. Think of it like a playlist for articles. Add the ones you like, and they all live in one place with a shareable feed.
How it works
Under the hood a folder is just a feed that you fill yourself instead of one we crawl. That means it reuses everything feeds already do:
- Its own RSS feed. Every folder is published at /u/<you>/folder/<slug>/rss.xml, so any reader can subscribe.
- An article can live in many folders.Filing something into "Design" and "Read later" at once is fine.
- It never gets crawled. Folders are not polled, so adding an article is instant and costs nothing.
Adding articles
In the reader, every article has a folder button next to the vote and favourite controls. Click it, tick the folders you want, or make a new one. The article is filed immediately.
Piping a folder to a webhook
This is where folders get powerful. Because a folder is a feed, you can subscribe a webhook to it. Then every time you add an article to that folder, it is delivered to your endpoint as a normal Feedbagel webhook payload. We use this ourselves to push hand-picked links into a news section: file an article into the folder, and a draft appears in the CMS for review.
- Create a webhook in your dashboard and point it at your URL.
- Open its Feeds tab. Your folders show up under Your folders with a Subscribe webhook button.
- Subscribe. From then on, anything you add to that folder is delivered, once, to your endpoint.
Deliveries are idempotent, so an article that sits in several folders or matches several tags is still sent to a given subscriber only once.
Limits
The free plan includes one folder. Need more? Get in touch, or use tag subscriptions if you want a whole topic rather than a curated set.