@rss2tg_botFree
74 / 100
Score
News bots turn scattered sources into one feed in Telegram: a news site, a blog, a YouTube channel, a forum section. Unlike cross-posting tools built to fill a channel, these are made first of all for your own reading, though several can also post into a group or channel.
| # | Bot | Price | Languages | Inline | Groups | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @rss2tg_bot | Free · Free; up to 500 feeds per user | EN | no | yes | 74 |
| 2 | @TheFeedReaderBot | Freemium · 10 feeds, 5 channels or groups, refresh every 12 hours, occasional ads | EN | no | yes | 74 |
| 3 | @telefeedbot | Free | EN · RU | no | no | 62 |
| 4 | @hackernewsbot | Free | EN | no | no | 62 |
| 5 | @rss_t_bot | Free | EN | no | no | 59 |
We did not subscribe the bots to test feeds for days; the ranking rests on what can be checked in the open. For each bot we confirmed on its t.me page that it is a live bot, then looked for a source on the owner's side: a website with published limits, an open repository and the date of its last change, a help page or at least a detailed description. From those we noted which sources a bot accepts, how often it checks them, the free limits and paid plans, whether it can post to groups and channels and whether anything shows the project is still maintained. Bots known only from their name were left out.
A site with an RSS or Atom feed is the easy case: every bot here reads it, and delivery depends mostly on how often the bot checks. RSS bot (@rss2tg_bot) checks about every five minutes; Feed Reader Bot (@TheFeedReaderBot) every 12 hours on its free plan and every 30 minutes on Premium. Many sites hide a feed at an address like /feed or /rss, and Feed Reader Bot looks for it when you paste the site's address. Sources without any feed, including most social networks, need scraping or a feed generator, which breaks whenever the source changes its pages. If a source runs its own Telegram channel, subscribe to that instead: it is faster than any bot.
Ten sources at ten items a day is a hundred messages. Start with the three sources you actually read, give the news bot its own chat folder, and use the tools a bot offers against noise: slow mode and message grouping in RSS bot, keyword excludes and templates on Feed Reader Bot's paid plans.
A feed bot is only as good as its last update. Before you move all your reading into one, look for signs of life: a site with current limits, live statistics, a repository with recent changes. telefeedbot (@telefeedbot) and RSS to Telegram bot (@rss_t_bot) are open source, which lets you run your own copy, but neither shows recent maintenance. For one site, such as Hacker News, a topical bot like Hacker News Bot (@hackernewsbot) answers faster than setting up a feed.
RSS bot (@rss2tg_bot) is free, allows up to 500 feeds per user and checks about every five minutes. Feed Reader Bot (@TheFeedReaderBot) is also free for 10 feeds, but refreshes them only every 12 hours unless you pay.
Try Feed Reader Bot (@TheFeedReaderBot) first: paste the site's address and it looks for a hidden feed, and its site offers an RSS bridge and an AI feed generator. RSS bot (@rss2tg_bot) and RSS to Telegram bot (@rss_t_bot) need a real feed.
Feed Reader Bot (@TheFeedReaderBot) follows YouTube channels and X profiles and lists on its free plan and adds Facebook pages on paid plans; its site warns that Facebook, Instagram and TikTok feeds can arrive hours late.
