RSS and News Feed Monitor: deduped new items and keyword alerts

Monitor any number of RSS, Atom or JSON feeds and get only new, deduplicated items, filtered by your keywords. Paste a website URL and its feed is found automatically. Schedule it hourly or daily, then send results to Slack, email, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or n8n with Apify integrations.

Use it for brand and competitor monitoring, PR and media tracking, industry news alerts, content curation, and feeding news into AI agents.

What makes it reliable

• Only new items. It remembers what it has already seen, so each item is output (and billed) once.
• Cross-feed dedupe. The same story syndicated in several feeds is output once. Tracking parameters (utm_*) are stripped from links.
• No charge on empty runs. If nothing is new, the dataset stays empty and you pay $0 for results. Broken feeds are reported per feed. If all feeds fail, the run fails loudly.
• Hard caps. maxItems, maxItemsPerFeed, per-feed timeouts, 3 retries.
• Feed auto-discovery from <link rel="alternate">, with support for RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0/RDF, Atom and JSON Feed.

Try it free in 1 click

The input form is prefilled with a small, working example. Press Start without changing anything: the run reads the Hacker News front page and The Verge feeds and returns 20 fresh items. Our test run of exactly this input finished in about 6 seconds with 20 results. At list price that is about $0.02, which fits inside the free monthly credit of Apify's free plan. Then swap in your own values.

Prefilled input:

{
  "feeds": [
    "https://hnrss.org/frontpage",
    "https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml"
  ],
  "maxItems": 20
}

Sample output

Real rows from the prefilled run on 2026-10-14 (5 of 20 results shown; long fields trimmed). Download the full dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.

feedTitle	title	source	published
Hacker News: Front Page	I built a tool to track what AI leaders say and how th…	blumify.io	2026-10-14T01:09:13.000Z
Hacker News: Front Page	High-speed video reveals how honey bee stingers pump v…	arstechnica.com	2026-10-14T01:05:23.000Z
Hacker News: Front Page	Show HN: Pulse Local, a Mac budgeting app whose AI mod…	pulseos.finance	2026-10-13T23:13:23.000Z
Hacker News: Front Page	Recreational Programming	www.cphiri.dev	2026-10-13T22:33:33.000Z
Hacker News: Front Page	AlphaNIST	alpha-nist.github.io	2026-10-13T21:57:29.000Z

Input (copy-paste)

{
  "feeds": ["https://hnrss.org/frontpage", "https://blog.apify.com", "https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml"],
  "keywords": ["AI", "scraping", "open source"],
  "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true,
  "stateStoreName": "my-ai-news-monitor",
  "maxItems": 500
}

API (copy-paste)

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/appetizing_horsefly~rss-news-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"feeds":["https://hnrss.org/frontpage"],"keywords":["AI"]}'

Output

{"title":"...","link":"https://example.com/story","published":"2026-10-10T05:12:00.000Z","source":"example.com","matchedKeywords":["ai"],"feedTitle":"Hacker News: Front Page","summary":"..."}

A per-feed health report is saved as SUMMARY in the key-value store.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.001 per new item ($1 per 1,000). Already-seen, duplicate and filtered items are free.

Use it as an MCP tool (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, any AI agent)

This Actor works as a tool in the Apify MCP server, so an AI agent can call it directly and you pay per result, the same as a normal run. Add this server URL to any MCP client:

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=appetizing_horsefly/rss-news-monitor

Sign in with your Apify account (or pass your Apify API token as a Bearer header). The agent reads the input fields above from the Actor's input schema. Example request to the agent: "Check these 3 blogs' feeds and return new posts mentioning 'pricing' since the last run."