Auto Publishing
NewsHub stories on your site, on your schedule — picked for your readers, exactly as filed and always credited.
Auto Publishing is on the Growth and Pro plans. It connects your site to NewsHub — Prasar Bharati's PB-SHABD feed of AIR and DD newsroom stories — and posts the ones you choose to your site on a schedule.
How it works#
- Read — PublishMe checks PB-SHABD for new stories every few minutes.
- Pick — only stories that match what you've set: languages, states, districts and categories.
- Post — published right away, sent for review, or saved as drafts, however many a day and only in the hours and days you choose, with the story's pictures and the source credited.
Connect your account#
- Open Integrations and find Auto Publishing (under Content).
- Press Set up, then enter the email and password you sign in to PB-SHABD with.
- Auto Publishing now appears in the sidebar under Newsroom. Nothing is posted until you switch your feed on.
Set up your feed#
These settings are on the Auto Publishing page once your account is connected.
- Publishing mode — Auto-publish (live as picked), Manual approval (an editor approves each one first) or Save as draft.
- Languages — the story's own languages; each is posted as filed.
- States and Districts — optional; none ticked means stories from anywhere in India.
- Categories and Excluded categories — optional; pick the ones you want, or rule some out.
- Stories a day, Posting hours and Days — how many, and when during the day and week.
- Pictures — Post only stories with pictures skips stories without one, in the feed and in Make a story.
- Translation — posts each story in its own language and translates it with your AI Router keys into your site's other languages, all published together. Needs a working AI key. PB-SHABD files stories “as filed”, so turn this on only if you're cleared to translate them.
| Publishing mode | What happens |
|---|---|
| Auto-publish | Goes live as soon as it's picked, in its own language. |
| Manual approval | It waits for an editor (the review workflow is on the Pro plan; a draft otherwise). |
| Save as draft | It waits in Articles as a draft; nothing goes live on its own. |
Make a story from the library#
- Open the Government news library tab — every story PublishMe has read in the last 30 days, one row per story.
- Search, or filter by state and language; tick Not used yet to hide stories already on your site.
- Press Make a story, choose the section, and when it's ready: Keep as a draft, Send for review, or — for editors — Publish right away.
The story appears in Articles a minute or two later.
The credit line#
Every story from Auto Publishing names its source under the text, linked to the original filing, in the reader's language: Source: Prasar Bharati (PB-SHABD). PB-SHABD lets anyone reproduce its stories free of charge, as filed, as long as the source is acknowledged — so the credit is kept out of the story's text, where it can't be edited away.
Limits and pausing#
- Up to 30 stories a day, posted between 07:00 and 22:00 unless you set your own hours.
- One PB-SHABD account connected at a time; sign in again any time it needs reconnecting.
- Uninstall (at the bottom of Overview) switches posting off and drops stories still waiting. Settings and everything already posted stay.