RSS Feed Reader & Parser - RSS, Atom, JSON Feed

RSS Feed Reader & Parser - RSS, Atom, JSON Feed

Read any RSS, Atom, RDF or JSON Feed, or just give a website URL and the feed is discovered automatically. Get every item as a clean row: title, link, publish date, author, categories, summary, full text, image and podcast/video enclosures. Filter by keyword and date, or switch on only-new-items mode to monitor blogs, news sites, YouTube channels and podcasts on a schedule.

• $1.50 per 1,000 items, pay per event. Feed info and status rows are free, and unchanged items in monitor mode are free too.
• Auto-discovery: use website HTML <link rel="alternate"> advertisements and common feed paths (/feed, /rss.xml, /atom.xml).
• All formats: RSS 0.9x/2.0, RSS 1.0 (RDF), Atom 1.0, JSON Feed 1.x, Media RSS, iTunes podcast tags, YouTube channel feeds.
• Monitoring: onlyNewItems remembers what each feed already returned (named key-value store) and outputs only new items. Perfect for Slack/Zapier/Make alerts.
• Clean dates (ISO 8601), HTML converted to text, relative links made absolute. No browser, 256 MB. Bad feeds never fail the run; they become free status rows.

Atom feed/entry links, logo/icon, enclosures and images extracted from HTML content respect inherited xml:base at feed, entry and relevant element scope. This is URL resolution only; HTML bodies are returned without rewriting their internal links.

Use cases

• News and blog monitoring: new posts from competitors, industry blogs and press rooms.
• Content aggregation: build a reading list, newsletter or dashboard from hundreds of feeds.
• AI / RAG: fresh article text for summarisation and embeddings.
• Podcasts and YouTube: episode lists with audio URLs and durations; new videos from channels (https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=...).
• SEO: publishing frequency of competitor blogs.

Input

Field	Description
feeds	Feed URLs or website URLs
maxItemsPerFeed	Default 5, 0 = all
onlyItemsNewerThan	2026-01-31 or 24 hours, 7 days, 1 month
keywords	Keep only items containing one of these words
onlyNewItems, monitorKey	Only items not seen in previous runs
includeContent, includeHtml	Full text / HTML
includeFeedInfo	One free row per feed

{
  "feeds": ["https://www.w3.org/blog/feed/"],
  "maxItemsPerFeed": 5,
  "onlyItemsNewerThan": "7 days"
}

Output

Synthetic example (not a customer or a real article):

{
  "type": "result",
  "feedUrl": "https://example.org/feed/",
  "feedTitle": "Fixture Feed",
  "title": "Fixture article",
  "url": "https://example.org/article",
  "published": "2026-10-20T18:36:53.000Z",
  "author": "Fixture Author",
  "categories": ["AI", "Apps"],
  "summary": "Example summary",
  "content": "Full article text when the feed carries it ...",
  "imageUrl": "https://example.org/image.jpg",
  "enclosures": []
}

Rows with type: "feed" describe each feed; rows with type: "status" explain problems (no feed found, HTTP errors). Both are free.

FAQ

The site has no feed. You get a free no_feed_found row. For sites without feeds use a website-to-Markdown crawler instead.

How does only-new-items work? Item IDs (guid/link) of each feed are stored in the named key-value store rss-feed-reader-monitor under your monitor name. The next run with the same feeds outputs only unseen items, and seen items are not charged.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes — that is the normal pattern for monitoring. Schedule it (e.g. hourly or daily), combine with onlyNewItems for a change feed, or with onlyItemsNewerThan for a rolling window.

What about copyright and republishing? The Actor returns exactly what each feed publishes; RSS is designed for sharing item metadata, but full-text reuse is governed by each publisher's terms. Respect licensing and attribution when you republish content or build public products on it.

Why are some fields empty? The Actor can only output what the feed itself carries: feeds without full text give null content, feeds without dc:creator give null author, and missing dates, images or enclosures stay empty rather than invented.

How much does RSS Feed Reader cost?

Pay per event: $0.0015 per result ($1.50 per 1,000 saved rows). Each saved data row is one result event. Status rows, error rows and empty lookups are not charged. Set maxTotalChargeUsd explicitly in API/CLI run options (for example 0.01); this limits result-event charges, while platform compute/storage may be separate. A partial dataset is normal when the cap is reached. An explicit zero event budget emits no item rows. The run stops when it reaches the maximum cost per run. No Apify proxy and no login.

Support and disclaimers

Problems, feature requests and questions belong on the Issues tab of the Actor's page on Apify. This Actor is an independent tool: it is not affiliated with Apify or with any feed publisher, and it only reads feeds that are published for syndication. Item metadata may include author names as published in the feed; those are public syndication data, and the Actor stores no personal profiles beyond what the feed provides.