Deploy and Host RSS on Railway

RSSHub is an open-source RSS feed generator that converts thousands of websites, APIs, and online services into customizable RSS feeds. Whether you're following YouTube channels, Reddit communities, social media, blogs, or sites without native RSS support, RSSHub gives you complete control over how you collect and consume information.

About Hosting RSS

Hosting RSSHub on Railway provides a managed environment for running your own RSS feed generation service without maintaining servers or container infrastructure. This template deploys RSSHub together with Redis for high-performance caching and Browserless for rendering JavaScript-heavy websites that require a headless browser. Railway automatically provisions networking, HTTPS, and service-to-service communication, allowing RSSHub to securely access its dependencies. Preconfigured environment variables help simplify setup while supporting browser rendering, CORS configuration, and bot protection. As feed requests grow, Railway allows you to scale your deployment while Redis reduces load by caching generated feeds.

Common Use Cases

• Generate RSS feeds for websites and platforms that do not provide native RSS feeds.
• Build personal or team news aggregation systems from blogs, social media, forums, and APIs.
• Automate content monitoring for research, media tracking, analytics, or workflow automation.

Dependencies for RSS Hosting

Deployment Dependencies

Implementation Details

Docker

This template deploys the following services:

Railway automatically deploys each service using the provided container images.

Public Networking

Generate a Railway domain from Settings → Networking → Generate Domain to access your RSSHub instance.

Environment Variables

Example:

CACHE_TYPE=redis
REDIS_URL=${{Redis.REDIS_URL}}
ALLOW_ORIGIN=*
ALLOW_USER_HOTLINK_TEMPLATE=true
DISALLOW_ROBOT=true
BROWSERLESS_ENDPOINT=http://browserless:3000

Use the Railway Redis reference variable for REDIS_URL. The Browserless endpoint should reference the internal Railway service.

Persistent Storage

RSSHub itself does not require persistent storage for normal operation.

Redis caching is ephemeral by default and can be recreated if the service restarts. Browserless also does not require persistent storage for standard deployments.

Database

No relational database is required.

This template uses Redis solely for caching generated feeds and improving response performance.

Build & Start

The application runs directly from the official Docker image.

No custom build or start commands are required.

Accessing the Application

After deployment:

1. Generate a Railway public domain.
2. Open the generated URL.
3. Begin accessing RSSHub routes as documented in the official documentation (for example, /youtube/channel/{channelId} or other supported routes).
4. Subscribe to generated feed URLs using your preferred RSS reader such as Folo, FreshRSS, Tiny Tiny RSS, or Feedly.

Why Deploy RSS on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying RSS on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.