LaunchNotes RSS feeds can be made private in the settings - creating a token and requiring the presence of that token in the url in order to load.

⚠️ Note: Anyone with access to the full URL including the token will have access to the content of the feed.

Private RSS feeds are great for private pages and public pages where subscription options should be restricted to Email and Slack.

To set a page’s RSS feed to private, admins can navigate to Settings→Embed, API, & RSS→RSS feed and toggle on Make it private.

When Make it private is toggled on, the url in the settings page will update to include the required token, and the token will be available below.

To customize a feed for specific categories or roadmap items you can do so by appending the URL parameters from a custom view of the published page to the URL with token displayed on the settings page. The URL should consist of 3 parts: feed ? token & category params

The feed needs to be the feed.rss URL, followed by a question mark, followed by the private token, followed by an ampersand, followed by the category url parameters.

e.g. https://updates.launchnotes.com/feed.rss?token=23hiuf33i4hHR$i3fhfUERHIUhebf34f3f8uoiwh&categories=cat_E9sq1rHZsOeAo%2Ccat_t6don67r9qZht%2Ccat_x2RIahi28qhRO&view=complete).

Learn more about customizing the feed with URL params in this help article.

The required token makes the RSS feed inaccessible to any traffic attempting to access the page without it.

You also have the option of generating a new token, which will replace the original token and cut off access to anyone and any applications that were using the original token.