Adding content sources

Sources tell HeyNews where to find content for your newsletters. Add the blogs, feeds, and social accounts you want to pull from.

Source types

HeyNews supports four types of content sources:

RSS feeds

Subscribe to any public RSS, Atom, or JSON Feed URL. HeyNews checks the feed automatically and pulls in new articles.

Good for: blogs, news sites, industry publications, podcasts with show notes.

Reddit subreddits

Monitor the top posts from any subreddit. Enter the subreddit name, with or without the "r/" prefix, and HeyNews will track popular content.

Good for: community discussions, trending topics, niche interest areas.

Reddit post URLs work differently. Save them as one-off stories when you only want one discussion. If you paste a Reddit post while adding a source, HeyNews asks whether you want to save that post or follow the whole subreddit.

Followed sites

Point HeyNews at any blog or website. It discovers the site's RSS feed automatically (if one exists) and starts pulling content.

Good for: company blogs, personal sites, publications that don't advertise their RSS.

Profiles

Track content from public profiles on X, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, Threads, Facebook, and Bluesky. HeyNews imports posts and looks for feeds from social profiles.

Good for: YouTube channels, thought leaders, industry voices, and accounts that share links you care about.

How to add a source

  1. Go to Content Desk in the sidebar
  2. Click Add
  3. Choose Add a source
  4. Paste the link you have. This can be a website URL, feed URL, YouTube channel, social profile, or subreddit like r/machinelearning.
  5. HeyNews checks the link and adds it as the right kind of source when it can.
  6. If you already know the type, choose it manually before adding.
  7. Add an optional display name or tags, then click Add Source.

If you paste a social post link and HeyNews can tell which profile it came from, it follows that profile as the source. If the post link does not include the profile, paste the profile URL instead.

You can also choose Add a story in the Add form to save a one-off link, note, or idea for your next issue. See Working with stories.

What happens after adding a source

Once added, HeyNews will:

  1. Check the source URL or handle
  2. Start looking for new content automatically
  3. Turn new content into stories
  4. Make those stories available in Compose

New content appears in Content Desk under Stories. Use Sources when you want to review what HeyNews is checking, refresh a source, pause it, or see whether the team is already looking into an import issue.

After you add a source, HeyNews opens Sources and clears any active source search or story filter so you can see the saved source while it checks for stories.

Source names describe the feed, site, profile, channel, or URL HeyNews is checking. Story titles describe the individual article, post, or video that came from that source.

Sometimes HeyNews can check a source successfully but does not find any stories yet. That can happen with a new blog, a quiet feed, or a site that has not published since you added it. In that case, the source still gets added. You will see No stories yet in Sources, and HeyNews will keep checking it for new content.

When you connect a newsletter archive or email platform, HeyNews also looks at links in each new issue. If it finds a public profile or a site with a feed, it can add that as a source too. If HeyNews already knows that source, it connects it to your publication without starting from scratch.

Managing sources

From Content Desk > Sources you can:

  • Search sources by name or URL
  • Open a source to review recent stories collected from it
  • Refresh a source when you want HeyNews to check it now
  • Pause or resume sources that support source actions
  • Remove a source when you no longer want it in this publication. HeyNews

stops using that source here and removes its stories from this publication's

story list, while leaving shared source data available to any other

publication that still uses it.

Removing a source does not disconnect beehiiv, Kit, or a newsletter archive.

Those connections live in Connections and publication settings.

From Content Desk > Stories you can:

  • Filter stories by All, New, or Saved
  • Select stories you want to use in your next newsletter
  • Click Use these to open Compose with your selected stories prefilled