# RSS & Atom Feed Parser — News, Blogs, Podcasts (`gochujang/rss-feed-parser`) Actor

Parse any RSS or Atom feed into clean JSON. Supports news sites, blogs, podcasts, YouTube channels, Reddit, GitHub releases. Batch up to 100 feeds per run. $0.001/feed + $0.0005/item.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/gochujang/rss-feed-parser.md
- **Developed by:** [Hojun Lee](https://apify.com/gochujang) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-usage

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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.

***

### What you get

One output row per feed, with all items nested:

```json
{
  "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`.

***

### 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

***

### 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.

***

### 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/` |

***

### 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) |

***

### 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 |

***

### Related actors

- **[PDF Text Extractor](https://apify.com/gochujang/pdf-text-extractor)** — Extract text from linked PDFs in feed items
- **[Web Page → Markdown](https://apify.com/gochujang/web-to-markdown)** — Convert full article pages to clean text
- **[Article Summarizer](https://apify.com/gochujang/article-summarizer)** — AI summaries of feed article content
- **[HTML Metadata Extractor](https://apify.com/gochujang/html-metadata-extractor)** — Enrich feed items with OG tags, images

# Actor input Schema

## `feedUrls` (type: `array`):

List of RSS or Atom feed URLs to parse. Supports news sites, blogs, YouTube channels (?rss=1), Reddit /.rss, GitHub releases/atom.

## `feedUrl` (type: `string`):

Single RSS/Atom feed URL. Used when feedUrls is empty.

## `maxItemsPerFeed` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of items to return per feed (up to 500).

## `includeContent` (type: `boolean`):

Include full article HTML (content:encoded for RSS, content for Atom). Can significantly increase output size.

## `limit` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of feeds to process per run (max 100).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "feedUrls": [],
  "feedUrl": "",
  "maxItemsPerFeed": 50,
  "includeContent": false,
  "limit": 20
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("gochujang/rss-feed-parser").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("gochujang/rss-feed-parser").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call gochujang/rss-feed-parser --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,gochujang/rss-feed-parser"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/y9slP1g0wCx7CJgT6/builds/ichGgmTaRQyCuzp0x/openapi.json