Deploy and Host RSSHub on Railway

RSSHub generates RSS feeds for sites that never offered one. Over a thousand routes cover social networks, news outlets, forums, package registries, video platforms and government notice boards — anything with a page but no feed becomes something your reader can subscribe to.

About Hosting RSSHub

RSSHub with Redis caching on a persistent volume. The image is the Chromium-bundled build, which matters more than it sounds: a large share of RSSHub's routes render JavaScript pages in a headless browser, and the slim image simply fails on those routes.

Redis is what keeps the deployment polite. Without a shared cache every reader poll re-fetches the upstream site, which is slow for you and looks like scraping to them.

Common Use Cases

Following sites that dropped their feeds: Social accounts, newsletters and news sites that removed RSS become readable in your existing reader.
Release and changelog monitoring: GitHub releases, package registries and vendor changelogs as feeds, without a bot for each one.
A private feed hub for a team: One deployment feeding everyone's reader, with the cache shared between them rather than hammering upstream once per person.

Dependencies for RSSHub Hosting

Deployment Dependencies

RSSHub — Chromium-bundled image
Redis 7.2 on a Railway volume for the route cache
An RSS reader, or anything that can poll a URL

Implementation Details

CACHE_TYPE=redis with REDIS_URL pointing at the private hostname is what turns per-request fetching into a shared cache. The URL carries ?family=0 so the client resolves AAAA records — Railway's private network is IPv6-only and an IPv4-pinned client will not connect.

The Chromium bundle is why this image is large and why memory use is spiky rather than flat: a browser starts up for the routes that need one. If your routes are all plain HTTP, the slim image is cheaper, but it will break the moment you subscribe to something JavaScript-rendered.

Many routes need credentials for the site they read — cookies, tokens, API keys. RSSHub takes these as environment variables documented per route; add them to the service as you subscribe to the routes that need them.

/healthz is the healthcheck path, so Railway holds traffic until the app is actually serving.

RSSHub is deliberately open by default. Anyone with the URL can generate feeds through your instance, which also means anyone can use your deployment's bandwidth. ACCESS_KEY is the upstream setting that closes it; set it if the domain is going anywhere public.

Why Deploy RSSHub 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 RSSHub 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.

Resources: idle it is modest, but Chromium makes peaks real — budget 500 MB to 1 GB of headroom and roughly $8–15 a month depending on how many browser-rendered routes you poll and how often.