There are 6 main types of sources available that you can add to a Feed. A Feed project can contain several different source types.
Google searches will input new sets of results to your Reportlinker account. Any search term you enter will give results to new pages like blogs, websites and publishers. Just give a name to your source, add the search terms and crawl frequency to add results from Google Searches to your results.
1. Give a name to your source,
2. Enter the search terms you want,
3. Save
Google news will push results to the Reportlinker platform that are the articles from a Google News search. Just enter the name of your source, the search terms you want and a crawl frequency to start getting results for a Google News search to your results.
1. Give a name to your source,
2. Enter the search terms you want,
3. Save
You can add a link to a website page as a source. If you want to monitor specific publishers, thought leaders or companies' websites, you can do it with this option here. To start crawling the content from a website:
1. Give a name to your source,
2. Enter the page address
3. Check that the automatically generated path is correct, or enter it manually (this lets you crawl only a specific section of the site instead of the entire website),
4. Save
You can also add any RSS Feeds to your Reportlinker Feeds to make sure you get the content you desire. To do so, just click on the RSS Feed card and enter the following:
1. Source name
2. RSS Feed URL
3. Save
We can track over 100 million research papers from leading global journals like Nature, Science, IEEE, and The Lancet. Adding scientific papers is quick and easy:
We can also track 190 million patents from 40 patent office globally. Here's how to set it up:
1. Give a name to your source
2. Enter keywords related to your topic of interest.
3. Save your source, and you're all set!
There is also an option to add Social Media pages to Feeds. To add a LinkedIn, X, Instagram or Facebook account, just follow these simple steps:
1. Give a name to your source,
2. Enter the URL of the profile,
3. Toggle or un toggle the "Analyze URL" button,
4. Save
💡 The toggle button "Analyze URLs" means that the crawlers will automatically retrieve any links that have been shared within a post's description.
You can add files from your company directory to your Reportlinker account. Doing so will enable you to crawl your files database with the Reportlinker filters and Smart Insights to find documents and data from your company documents easier. To connect your FTP to Reportlinker, follow these few steps:
1. Enter a source name,
2. Type in your server name,
3. Enter the Port,
4. Enter your username,
5. Enter your password,
6. Type in your directory path,
7. Enter the recursive,
8. Save