RSS, Atom & JSON Feed Reader — Normalized Feed Parser

Turn any RSS, Atom, RDF, or JSON feed into clean, normalized JSON items — one consistent schema no matter the feed format. Content comes back as Markdown, HTML, or plain text, your choice.

Charged per feed. All the items in a feed are included. No startup fee; failed feeds cost $0.

Quick start

{
  "feedUrls": ["https://news.ycombinator.com/rss", "https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml"]
}

→ one row per item, same shape for every feed:

{
  "feedTitle": "The Verge",
  "title": "…",
  "link": "https://www.theverge.com/…",
  "author": "…",
  "publishedAt": "2026-07-11T14:03:00.000Z",
  "summary": "Short plain-text summary…",
  "categories": ["Tech", "AI"],
  "guid": "…",
  "media": { "url": "https://…/image.jpg", "type": "image/jpeg" },
  "content": "## Full article content as clean Markdown…"
}

Features

Any format	RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0 (RDF), Atom, and JSON Feed — auto-detected
One schema	Same normalized fields across every feed you pass
Content your way	markdown (LLM-ready), html (as published), text, or none (summary only)
Incremental polling	sinceDate returns only items published on/after a date — perfect for schedules
Media	Enclosures / attachments (podcast audio, images) surfaced as media
Bulk	Pass many feeds in one run

Use cases

• News & content monitoring: watch dozens of sources; poll on a Schedule with sinceDate to get only what's new.
• Aggregators & newsletters: one normalized stream from many feeds.
• AI agents & RAG: Markdown content ready to summarize or embed.
• Podcast tooling: episode lists with audio enclosures.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/fetchbase~rss-feed-reader/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"feedUrls": ["https://hnrss.org/frontpage"], "contentFormat": "markdown"}'

Pricing

A small fixed price per feed processed (all its items included), plus minimal Apify platform usage — no browser, so it's fast and cheap. Failed feeds aren't billed.

FAQ

Is this responsible to run? Yes — feeds are published specifically so readers and aggregators consume them. This is the intended use; no scraping, no personal data.

Item content is empty for some feeds? Many feeds only publish a summary, not full content. Set contentFormat accordingly, or the summary field always has the short version.

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Need OPML import, deduplication across feeds, or full-text fetching of summary-only items? Open an issue. A ⭐ review helps others find it.

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Part of a suite of fast, no-nonsense web utilities — all pay-per-result, charged only on success, no startup fee:

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• Website Performance Audit — bulk Core Web Vitals & page speed
• Tech Stack Detector — CMS, frameworks, analytics, hosting
• Domain, DNS & WHOIS Lookup — records, registration, SSL
• RSS Feed Reader — RSS / Atom / JSON → normalized JSON
• Job Postings API — Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby & more

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This Actor is callable by AI agents through the Apify MCP server. Agents in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, LangGraph, CrewAI and others can discover it via search-actors and run it as a tool — its inputs and outputs are fully described in the schema for reliable agent use.