Topics

A topic collects posts about one subject from the sources you choose, such as a club, a competition or a news desk. Each topic has its own queue, and widgets and the API show its content.

The topics list

Open Topics in the sidebar to see the topics of the current project, last updated first. Search by name, or sort by date or name. Click a topic to edit it.

The ⋮ button on each row opens View Queue, Edit and Copy.

Create a topic

1. Click Create Topic.
2. Enter a Topic Name. It must be at least 3 characters and unique in the project. You’ll see ✓ Topic name is available when it is. You can’t rename a topic later.
3. Click Create Topic. The new topic opens so you can add its sources.

A topic has four tabs: Details, Filters, Input Feeds and Whitelist. Each tab has its own Save Changes button.

Details

Main Settings

Setting	What it does
Description	A note for your team. It also appears in the topics list.
Status	Active topics collect new posts. Set it to Inactive to stop new items from being added; the queue keeps what it has.
Display	Hidden stores every new item as hidden: you can still review it in the queue, but it isn’t shown in widgets or the API until you show it. Use it when every item needs approval first.
AI curation	Shows On for your organization when your organization has AI curation. There is nothing to set per topic.
Topic JSON Feed	The topic’s public Content API address. Click Copy to copy it.

Football Association

Attach the football Teams and Leagues / Tournaments the topic is about. Type at least two letters to search, then click a result to add it.

These help in two ways:

• The Content API can find your topics by team or competition.
• AI curation always considers these teams’ matches when it labels the topic’s posts.

Match & Custom Metadata

• Sports Matches: attach matches to the topic, for example for a match-day topic. Choose the Sport (football, rugby league or rugby union) and Month, type a team or competition name, click Search, then Add the matches you want.
• Custom Fields: your own key and value pairs, such as desk = sport. They’re returned by the Content API and you can search topics by them.

Filters

The Filters tab decides which posts from the topic’s sources reach the queue.

Filter	New topic	What it does
Age Filter	60 days	Skip posts published more than this many days ago. At least 1.
Language Filter	Off	When on, keep only posts in the Languages you tick.

Filters apply to new posts. Items already in the queue stay there.

Input feeds

The Input Feeds tab lists the topic’s sources by platform. Open a platform to see its sources, when each last posted and when LoopFeed last checked it.

To add a source, open the platform, click its Add button, fill in the form and click Add:

Platform	Button	What to enter	Example
RSS	Add New	The full feed address	https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/sport/football/rss.xml
X (Twitter)	Add User	The account’s username, with or without @	premierleague
YouTube channel	Add Channel	The channel ID: UC followed by 22 characters. Not the channel URL.	UCG5qGWdu8nIRZqJ_GgDwQ-w
YouTube playlist	Add Playlist	The playlist ID, usually starting with PL. Not the URL.	PLrAXtmErZgOeiKm4sgNOknGvNjby9efdf
YouTube user	Add User	The channel’s username	mkbhd
Instagram	Add User	The account’s username	premierleague

Every source also has:

• Title: an optional label for your team.
• Priority: from 1 (highest) to 10 (lowest). The default is 5.
• Display: Hidden keeps collecting the source’s posts but stores them as hidden. This is useful for a source you want to review before showing.

New sources show their first posts within a few minutes. To change a source, click its row. To remove it from the topic, click Delete.

Finding a YouTube channel ID

Open the channel on YouTube, click More in the channel description, then Share channel → Copy channel ID.

Whitelist

The whitelist keeps only posts that match at least one of your items. Leave it empty to keep everything that passes the filters.

Section	Keeps posts	Example
Whitelisted Words	whose title or text contains the word, in any letter case. Parts of words count too, so Art also matches Arteta.	Arsenal, #COYG
Whitelisted Users	posted by this account (its name or username)	bbcsport
Whitelisted Regular Expressions	whose title or text matches the pattern. Patterns are case-sensitive; start one with (?i) to ignore case.	(?i)\bgunners?\b

Type an item and press Enter (or a comma) to add it, then click Save Changes. Click × on an item to remove it, or Clear All to empty a section.

Caution

Regular expressions are for advanced users. An invalid pattern is rejected. A pattern that matches too much makes the whitelist useless.

Copy a topic

To start a topic from an existing one, choose Copy in its row menu. Enter a New Topic Name, choose the Target Project (any project of your organization) and click Copy.

The copy has the same settings, filters, whitelist and sources. It doesn’t copy the queue items or the teams, competitions, matches and custom fields on the Details tab. The dashboard then switches to the target project.

Stop a topic

To stop a topic from collecting new posts, set its Status to Inactive on the Details tab. Widgets and the API keep showing its existing items. To take those off your site too, remove the topic from its widgets, or hide the items in the queue.