# RSS Feed Scraper & Monitor - Any RSS or Atom Feed (`aolmo/rss-feed-monitor`) Actor

Read any RSS 2.0 or Atom feed (news, blogs, podcasts, YouTube, Reddit, product updates) as clean rows: title, link, author, date, plain-text summary, HTML content, categories, image and attachment. Give the feed URL or a page that announces one. Scheduled runs flag new entries. $0.0002 per entry.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/aolmo/rss-feed-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [Antonio del Olmo Tena](https://apify.com/aolmo) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Automation
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.20 / 1,000 entry scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

Turn any RSS 2.0 or Atom feed into clean rows and watch it for new entries. News sites, blogs, podcasts, YouTube channels, Reddit, GitHub releases, product changelogs, job boards: if it publishes a feed, this Actor reads it. Give the feed URL (or the page that links to it) and get one row per entry with title, link, author, date, plain-text summary, full HTML content, categories, image and attachment. Schedule it and new entries are flagged, ready for alerts, newsletters, dashboards or LLM pipelines, at $0.0002 per entry.

No browser, no login: the Actor downloads the feed and parses it, including the usual extensions (content:encoded, dc:creator, media, enclosures, iTunes tags).

### What you get

**Entry** (one row each): `id`, `title`, `link`, `author`, `publishedAt`, `updatedAt`, `summary` (plain text, up to 2,000 characters), `contentHtml`, `categories`, `image`, `enclosureUrl`, `enclosureType`, and for podcast feeds `durationSeconds`, `episode`, `season`.

**Feed** on every row: `feedUrl` (the feed actually read), `feedTitle`, `feedLink`, `format` (`rss` or `atom`), `language`, `position`.

**Changes** on scheduled runs: `isNew` is true for entries that were not in the previous run of the same feed.

Feeds that cannot be read or pages without a feed return a row with an `error` field and are not charged.

### How to use it

1. Open the **Input** tab.
2. Add **Feed URLs**, one per line (up to 1,000 per run): `https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml`, `https://www.reddit.com/r/python/.rss`, `https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC...` or a site home page that announces its feed.
3. Set **Max entries per feed**.
4. Click **Start** and export the rows as JSON, CSV or Excel.
5. Schedule the Actor and use the new-entry events for alerts.

### Input

```json
{
  "feedUrls": ["https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml", "https://blog.apify.com/"],
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

### Output

```json
{
  "feedUrl": "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml",
  "feedTitle": "BBC News - Technology",
  "feedLink": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology",
  "format": "rss",
  "language": "en-gb",
  "position": 1,
  "id": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jnnpl1gkxo",
  "title": "AI chip maker reports record quarter",
  "link": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jnnpl1gkxo",
  "author": null,
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-27T08:12:00.000Z",
  "summary": "The company said demand for its data centre chips...",
  "categories": [],
  "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/...",
  "isNew": false,
  "timestamp": "2026-10-27T10:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Pricing

Pay per event: **$0.0002 per entry** and **$0.0005 per new entry** detected on a scheduled run. Feeds that cannot be read are free. 100 entries of 100 feeds cost $2.00.

### Limits and notes

- Feeds list their latest entries only (typically 10 to 100); the Actor returns what the feed contains, up to **Max entries**.
- When a page is given instead of a feed, the first feed announced with `<link rel="alternate">` is used.
- JSON Feed and feeds behind logins are not supported.

### Related Actors

- **Google News Scraper**: headlines by keyword.
- **News Article Scraper**: full text of the linked articles.
- **Website Monitor**: changes on pages without a feed.

# Actor input Schema

## `feedUrls` (type: `array`):

One per line: https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml, https://www.reddit.com/r/python/.rss, https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC..., or a site home page that links its feed. Up to 1,000 per run.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Newest first as the feed lists them. Also caps what you pay per feed.

## `product` (type: `string`):

Internal. Leave as is.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "feedUrls": [
    "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "product": "rss-feed-monitor"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset items: url, changed, events, data, timestamp and error (when the target failed).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "feedUrls": [
        "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("aolmo/rss-feed-monitor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "feedUrls": ["https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("aolmo/rss-feed-monitor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "feedUrls": [
    "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml"
  ]
}' |
apify call aolmo/rss-feed-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,aolmo/rss-feed-monitor"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/AcvtL90iZzSWH97eo/builds/hnmt9qfOzDxKQkDrj/openapi.json