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# Pulling in External JSON/XML Data
### RSS bypassing the FeedOtter UI
This is useful if you want to display some rss content without date/url filters impacting the content. A popular use-case for this is displaying a list of events.
{% hint style="info" %}
This function expects a valid RSS feed to be returned by the provided URL.
{% endhint %}
```html
[% set events = feed('https://www.feedotter.com/feed') %]
Display data directly from an rss feed. Bypass the UI.
[% for post in events %]
- [[post.post_title]]
[% endfor %]
```
### Custom JSON/XML Data
Here is a use case where we pull in the first element of a JSON feed. In this case it will be used as an ad.
```html
[% set todayDate = "now"|date("Y-m-d") %]
[% set ad1 = fetchdata('...your endpoint url here....', '{"Date":"' ~ todayDate ~ '"}')[0] %]
[% set ad2 = fetchdata('...your endpoint url here....')[0] %]
[% if ad1 and ad1|length >0 %]
[% else %]
[% endif %]
```