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Channel types - overview

Supported Channel Types

LinkedIn Company Profile

URL Format: https://www.linkedin.com/company/firmenname

Provides: Posts from the company profile

Retrieval: Via the Apify service, configured schedule

Special features: Public posts only. Internal posts, Stories, and employee posts are not included.

LinkedIn Personal Profile

URL format: https://www.linkedin.com/in/profilname

Delivers: Public posts by the person

Retrieval: Via the Apify service, schedule configured

Special features: Only publicly visible posts. Private network posts are not included.

YouTube Channel

URL Format: https://www.youtube.com/@kanalname or https://www.youtube.com/channel/id

Provides: New videos with title and description

Retrieval: Via the channel’s RSS feed, every 15 minutes

RSS / Atom Feed

URL Format: Direct feed URL, e.g., https://example.com/feed.xml

Delivers: Articles, blog posts, news updates

Retrieval: Every 15 minutes

Special features: Picasi automatically detects RSS and Atom. During automatic discovery, Picasi searches the website for linked feed URLs.

Email Newsletter

URL Format: A Picasi-specific inbox email address (automatically generated)

Delivers: Newsletter content sent to this address

Retrieval: Upon receipt (webhook-based, no polling)

Special features: You must subscribe to the newsletter using this address. Picasi automatically generates a unique incoming address when you create the source or channel.

Status: Email channels are not fetched, they wait for incoming mail. Their status therefore does not say “reachable” but “something arrived”: green when an email came in within the last four weeks, grey otherwise. The tooltip names the time of the last email received. See Source states.

Automatic Channel Discovery

When you create a new source with a website URL, Picasi analyzes the website in three steps:

  1. Website Extraction — Picasi searches the website for linked feed URLs, LinkedIn links, and YouTube links
  2. AI Discovery — If no links are found, the AI analyzes the website and suggests likely channels
  3. Fallback Email — As a final step, an email address is always created

Not all companies use every type of channel. If a channel is missing, you can add it manually if you know the URL.