Deploy and Host RSS-Bridge on Railway

RSS-Bridge generates RSS and Atom feeds for websites that don't publish one. That includes YouTube channels, Telegram channels, Reddit, Mastodon, Bandcamp, plus generic CSS-selector and XPath bridges for any page. It ships 400+ bridges.

About Hosting RSS-Bridge

This template runs the official rssbridge/rss-bridge image, which is nginx plus PHP-FPM, as a single service. There is no database: feeds are cached on local disk and rebuilt on demand, so the service needs no volume and stays on the smallest instance size.

By default the instance is private. A random access token is generated at deploy time, and every request must carry &token=. Feed readers handle this because the token is part of the feed URL. To run a public instance, clear RSSBRIDGE_authentication_token.

Common Use Cases

Follow YouTube, Telegram or Reddit in a normal feed reader, with no account or algorithm.
Turn any page into a feed with the CSS Selector or XPath bridge.
Feed a self-hosted reader (Miniflux, FreshRSS, Nextcloud News) or an automation tool (n8n).

Dependencies for RSS-Bridge Hosting

None. One container.

Deployment Dependencies

Upstream:
Configuration reference:

Implementation Details

All configuration is set through environment variables named RSSBRIDGE_<section>_, which map to config.ini.php:

Variable	Default	Purpose
`RSSBRIDGE_authentication_token`	random 32 chars	Access token; clear it to go public
`RSSBRIDGE_system_enabled_bridges`	`*`	Comma-separated whitelist, or `*` for all
`RSSBRIDGE_system_timezone`	`UTC`	Timestamps in feeds
`RSSBRIDGE_cache_type`	`file`	`file`, `sqlite`, `memcached` or `null`
`RSSBRIDGE_error_output`	`feed`	Show bridge errors in the feed, HTTP or not

First use: open the public URL, enter the token, pick a bridge, then copy the generated feed URL (it includes the token) into your reader.

Health: / and /?action=health return 401 without the token, so Railway's healthcheck probes /UNLICENSE, a static file nginx serves directly. CI checks /?action=health&token=….

Why Deploy RSS-Bridge on Railway?

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