RSS & Atom Feed Parser — News, Blogs, Podcasts, YouTube, Reddit

Parse any RSS or Atom feed into clean structured JSON. News sites, blogs, podcasts, YouTube channel feeds, Reddit subreddits, GitHub releases, newsletters — all in one call. Batch up to 100 feeds per run. $0.001/feed + $0.0005/item.

⚡ Run in 30 seconds

Paste any RSS/Atom URL and click Start:

# News feed
https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml

# YouTube channel feed
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCVHkCitq2bBUCXIc4gV2A3A

# Reddit subreddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptocurrency/.rss

# GitHub releases
https://github.com/apify/apify-sdk-python/releases.atom

# Tech blog
https://techcrunch.com/feed/

No API keys needed. Runs in under 5 seconds for a single feed.

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What you get

One output row per feed, with all items nested:

{
  "url": "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml",
  "ok": true,
  "feed_type": "rss",
  "title": "BBC News",
  "link": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news",
  "description": "BBC News — Home",
  "language": "en-gb",
  "last_build": "2026-08-08T09:00:00+00:00",
  "item_count": 20,
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-08T09:37:00+00:00",
  "items": [
    {
      "title": "Markets rally as Fed holds rates",
      "link": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/...",
      "guid": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/...",
      "author": "BBC Business",
      "published": "2026-08-08T08:00:00+00:00",
      "summary": "Global markets surged after the Federal Reserve signalled a pause...",
      "categories": ["Business", "Economy"],
      "media_url": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/...",
      "content_html": null
    }
  ]
}

Enable includeContent: true to get the full article HTML in content_html.

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Use cases

1. News aggregation — Monitor 50+ news sources in a single run for market/sector intelligence
2. AI content pipelines — Feed fresh articles into Claude, GPT, or RAG search directly
3. Newsletter monitoring — Track competitor newsletters and blog updates
4. Podcast indexing — Parse podcast RSS feeds to get episode lists, descriptions, MP3 URLs
5. GitHub release tracking — Monitor dependencies for new releases via Atom feeds
6. Reddit research — Pull top posts from subreddits without the Reddit API (no auth)
7. Content calendars — Check publication frequency and recent topics for any blog
8. Price/alert feeds — Some financial data providers publish rate feeds as RSS
9. YouTube channel indexing — Get video titles, descriptions, and publish dates for any channel

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Supported formats

Format	Examples
RSS 2.0	News sites, blogs, WordPress, Substack
Atom 1.0	GitHub, YouTube, Google Alerts, Blogger
RSS 1.0	Older sites, RDF feeds

Handles dc:creator, content:encoded, media:thumbnail, and other common extensions automatically.

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Feed URL patterns

Platform	URL pattern
YouTube channel	https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<ID>
Reddit subreddit	https://www.reddit.com/r/<sub>/.rss
GitHub releases	https://github.com/<user>/<repo>/releases.atom
GitHub tags	https://github.com/<user>/<repo>/tags.atom
Google Alerts	Alerts export URL from alerts.google.com
Substack	https://<publication>.substack.com/feed
Medium	https://medium.com/feed/<publication>
WordPress	https://<site>/feed/

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Input options

Field	Default	Description
feedUrls	—	List of RSS/Atom feed URLs (up to 100)
feedUrl	—	Single feed URL shortcut
maxItemsPerFeed	50	Max items per feed (up to 500)
includeContent	false	Include full article HTML in content_html
limit	20	Max feeds per run (up to 100)

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Pricing

• $0.001 per feed (start + fetch)
• $0.0005 per item returned

Example	Feeds	Items	Cost
1 news site (20 items)	1	20	$0.011
10 blogs (50 items each)	10	500	$0.26
50 feeds news aggregator	50	1000	$0.55
Daily monitoring, 100 feeds	100	2000	$1.10

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