Rss Feed Aggregator

What does it do?

RSS Feed Aggregator collects and parses multiple RSS and Atom feeds in a single run. It extracts article titles, links, descriptions, publish dates, authors, and categories from each feed item. All items from all feeds are combined into a single structured dataset, making it easy to monitor multiple content sources at once.

Why use this actor?

Monitoring multiple news sources, blogs, and content feeds manually is time-consuming. This actor automates feed aggregation at scale, collecting items from dozens or hundreds of feeds in seconds. It is ideal for content monitoring, news aggregation, competitive intelligence, SEO content research, and building automated content pipelines.

How to use it

1. Go to the actor's page on the Apify platform.
2. Click Start to open the input configuration.
3. Enter one or more RSS or Atom feed URLs.
4. Set the maximum number of items to collect.
5. Click Start and wait for the results.
6. Download your aggregated feed data from the Dataset tab.

The actor supports standard RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0, and Atom feed formats.

Input configuration

Field	Type	Description	Default
feedUrls	array	RSS/Atom feed URLs	["https://techcrunch.com/feed/", "https://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index"]
maxItems	integer	Max items across all feeds	500
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings	Apify Proxy

Output data

Each item in the dataset contains:

{
    "title": "New AI Model Breaks Performance Records",
    "link": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/new-ai-model/",
    "description": "A new language model has achieved state-of-the-art...",
    "pubDate": "Wed, 19 Feb 2026 10:30:00 +0000",
    "author": "Sarah Chen",
    "categories": "AI, Machine Learning",
    "guid": "https://techcrunch.com/?p=123456",
    "feedSource": "TechCrunch",
    "feedUrl": "https://techcrunch.com/feed/",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-02-19T14:30:00.000Z"
}

Cost of usage

This actor uses CheerioCrawler for fast XML parsing. A typical run with 5 feeds and 500 items takes under 30 seconds and costs less than $0.005 in platform credits. The actor is priced at $0.30 per 1,000 results with pay-per-event pricing, making it extremely affordable for content monitoring.

Tips

• Most blogs and news sites have RSS feeds at /feed/ or /rss/ paths.
• Schedule this actor to run hourly or daily to maintain up-to-date content monitoring.
• Use the feedSource field to filter and categorize items by their origin.
• The description field contains the first 1,000 characters of the article summary.
• Atom feeds use slightly different element names but are handled automatically.
• Combine with email or Slack integrations to get alerts when new items match your criteria.
• The pubDate field preserves the original format from the feed for flexible date parsing.

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