RSS Feed Reader & Monitor - RSS, Atom, JSON + Full Articles

What does RSS Feed Reader do?

RSS Feed Reader reads any RSS, Atom or JSON feed, or just a website address (the feed is discovered automatically), and returns clean, structured items: title, link, date, authors, categories, summary, content, image and podcast enclosures. Turn on monitor mode to get only new items on every scheduled run, and optionally fetch the full article text for AI summaries, alerts and RAG.

Run it in Apify Console, via the API, on a schedule, or from your AI agent through the Apify MCP server. Send new items to Slack, email, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or n8n with Apify integrations.

Why use RSS Feed Reader?

• 🔍 Feed auto-discovery: paste theverge.com and it finds /rss/index.xml for you.
• 🔔 Only new items (monitor mode): schedule it hourly and get a clean stream of new posts. You only pay for new items.
• 📰 Full article text (optional): many feeds include only a teaser; we open each article and extract the main text, reader-mode style.
• 🎯 Keyword and date filters: e.g. only items mentioning "Iceland" from the last 24 hours.
• 🧠 AI-ready: content as plain text, Markdown or HTML, with images stripped from text.
• 🎙️ Podcasts: audio enclosures with URL, type and size.
• 🌍 Every format: RSS 0.9x/1.0/2.0, Atom, RDF and JSON Feed, any language.

Typical uses: news and competitor monitoring, brand and keyword alerts, feeding blogs and news to ChatGPT/Claude for summaries, building news aggregators and newsletters, tracking podcast episodes, and research datasets.

How to monitor RSS feeds for new items

1. Click Try for free.
2. Add feed URLs or website addresses to Feeds or websites.
3. Optionally switch on Only new items and Fetch full article text, and add Keywords.
4. Click Start. Items appear in the Output tab.
5. To monitor, click Schedule (e.g. every hour) and connect an integration such as Slack or email to receive new items.

Input

Option	What it does	Default
feedUrls	Feed URLs or website addresses	–
maxItemsPerFeed	Newest items per feed	50
onlyNewItems	Skip items returned by earlier runs	false
monitorName	Separate memory for independent monitors	default
publishedAfter	2026-09-01 or 24 hours, 7 days	–
keywords	Keep items containing any of these words	–
contentFormat	text, markdown or html	text
fetchFullArticle	Extract each article's main text	false

{
    "feedUrls": ["https://hnrss.org/frontpage", "theverge.com"],
    "onlyNewItems": true,
    "keywords": ["AI", "Apple"],
    "fetchFullArticle": true,
    "contentFormat": "markdown"
}

Output

{
    "feedUrl": "https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml",
    "feedTitle": "The Verge",
    "siteUrl": "https://www.theverge.com/",
    "success": true,
    "id": "https://www.theverge.com/2026/9/30/...",
    "title": "The AI Tamagotchis are coming",
    "url": "https://www.theverge.com/2026/9/30/...",
    "published": "2026-09-30T23:08:49.000Z",
    "authors": ["Jay Peters"],
    "categories": ["AI", "Gadgets"],
    "summary": "While AI has made plenty of inroads on people's phones...",
    "content": "While AI has made plenty of inroads...",
    "imageUrl": "https://platform.theverge.com/.../image.jpg",
    "enclosures": [],
    "articleText": "While AI has made plenty of inroads on people's phones and computers, ...",
    "articleWordCount": 648,
    "fetchedAt": "2026-10-01T08:00:00.000Z"
}

articleText and articleWordCount appear only with Fetch full article text. Feeds that can't be found or read are listed with success: false and are not charged. You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV or Excel.

How much does it cost to read RSS feeds?

• $1 per 1,000 feed items ($0.001 each)
• + $3 per 1,000 full articles when Fetch full article text is on, charged only when real article text is found
• + $0.002 per run

Example: monitoring 20 news feeds hourly (720 runs a month) with ~200 new items a day costs about $7.50 a month: $6 for items plus $1.44 in run fees. Platform usage is included. Set a maximum cost per run to stay in budget.

Tips

• In monitor mode, the first run returns the current items (up to Max items per feed); later runs return only new ones.
• Use Published after = 24 hours for a daily digest without monitor mode.
• Some sites render articles with JavaScript only, so full text may be missing there (not charged).
• If a site blocks data-centre traffic, enable Proxy.

FAQ

Where is the "seen items" memory kept? In a key-value store named rss-feed-reader-state in your own Apify account. Delete it to start over, or use a new Monitor name.

Is it legal? Feeds are published to be read by software. Full-article extraction reads public pages; respect each site's terms and copyright when you reuse content.

Something not working? Open an issue in the Issues tab with the feed URL and I'll fix it quickly.

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