RSS and Newsletter Page Extractor Actor

Status: published on Apify Store.

This utility is the second build candidate from the Utility-to-Usage scanner after the CSV cleanup tool reached a live deployment.

Product Shape

Discover feed and update links from public pages by:

• finding declared RSS, Atom, and JSON feed metadata;
• extracting likely newsletter, archive, changelog, release, and update links;
• normalizing relative URLs into absolute URLs;
• removing duplicates;
• returning actor-style JSON output.

Run

Run the extractor CLI:

C:\Users\lauku\.cache\codex-runtimes\codex-primary-runtime\dependencies\python\python.exe .\rss_newsletter_extractor.py --input .\samples\input.json --out .\samples\output.json

Run the Apify-style local entrypoint:

C:\Users\lauku\.cache\codex-runtimes\codex-primary-runtime\dependencies\python\python.exe .\main.py

That writes newline-delimited records to storage/datasets/default/records.jsonl.

Test

C:\Users\lauku\.cache\codex-runtimes\codex-primary-runtime\dependencies\python\python.exe -m unittest discover -s .\tests

Publish Path

• First target: Apify Actor.
• Later variant: hosted monitor that runs scheduled checks and emits changed feeds/items.

Apify packaging files included:

• .actor/actor.json
• INPUT_SCHEMA.json
• Dockerfile
• main.py

Risk Boundary

This MVP uses public pages or user-supplied HTML only. It does not handle logins, paywalls, CAPTCHAs, private data, or platform evasion.