# Feed Digest Monitor - RSS, Atom, GitHub, Status Pages (`gratifying_graph/feed-digest-monitor`) Actor Poll RSS/Atom feeds, GitHub releases, and statuspage.io status pages, and get ONLY the items that are new since your last run. The missing dedup layer for feed monitoring: schedule it and receive a clean change digest instead of the same items again and again. - **URL**: https://apify.com/gratifying\_graph/feed-digest-monitor.md - **Developed by:** [Jimmy A](https://apify.com/gratifying_graph) (community) - **Categories:** Automation, News - **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $0.50 / 1,000 new items This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Feed Digest Monitor - RSS, Atom, GitHub Releases, Status Pages Poll your feeds and get **only what's new since last time**. RSS and Atom feeds, GitHub release feeds (just `owner/repo`), and statuspage.io status pages - deduplicated against everything previous runs have seen. Schedule it and receive a clean change digest instead of the same 50 items every hour. ### Why this instead of an RSS reader actor Readers return the current feed contents every run. This actor remembers. The output of a scheduled run is the *delta*: new posts, new releases, new incidents, status changes. That is what you actually want to pipe into Slack, email, a database, or an AI agent. ### Feeds it understands | Spec | Treated as | |---|---| | `https://example.com/feed.xml` | RSS or Atom (auto-detected) | | `apify/crawlee` | GitHub releases feed for that repo | | `https://www.githubstatus.com` | statuspage.io: incidents, degraded components, status changes | ### Input ```json { "feeds": ["hnrss.org/frontpage", "apify/crawlee", "https://www.githubstatus.com"], "onlyNew": true } ```` ### Output One record per new item, plus a run digest: ```json { "feed": "github:apify/crawlee", "feedKind": "github", "feedTitle": "Release notes from crawlee", "id": "tag:github.com,2008:Repository/...", "title": "v3.17.0", "link": "https://github.com/apify/crawlee/releases/tag/v3.17.0", "publishedAt": "2026-06-02T...", "isNew": true } ``` ```json { "type": "digest", "feeds": [{ "feed": "github:apify/crawlee", "items": 10, "new": 1 }] } ``` First run for a feed outputs everything and saves the baseline; deltas start with run two. Use `digestGroup` to track the same feeds on independent schedules. ### Use cases - **Dependency watch**: new releases of the libraries you run, nothing else - **Status monitoring**: get an item only when a vendor's status page changes - **Content monitoring**: new posts from blogs, news, podcasts, job boards with feeds - **AI agents**: "what changed across my stack today" as one standby call ### API / Standby mode ``` GET /?feed=apify/crawlee&onlyNew=true ``` Returns total, new count, and the new items synchronously. ### Pricing | Event | Price | |---|---| | Actor start | $0.0001 | | Per feed polled | $0.001 | | Per new item | $0.0005 | | Run digest | $0.01 | | API call (standby) | $0.01 | Hourly monitoring of 10 feeds costs about $8/month, and most polls return zero new items, costing almost nothing beyond the poll. ### FAQ **Status page shows nothing - broken?** No: all-operational status pages produce zero items by design. You get items when incidents open, update, resolve, or components degrade. **How much history does it remember?** The last 5,000 item IDs per feed - far more than any feed window. **Podcast/YouTube feeds?** Any valid RSS/Atom works, including YouTube channel feeds (`https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=...`). # Actor input Schema ## `feeds` (type: `array`): RSS/Atom URLs, GitHub repos as owner/repo (release feed), or statuspage.io base URLs (e.g. https://www.githubstatus.com). ## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`): Output only items not seen by a previous run. First run outputs everything and saves the baseline. ## `maxItemsPerFeed` (type: `integer`): Cap on the number of items read from each feed per run. ## `digestGroup` (type: `string`): Advanced: namespace for seen-item memory. Different groups track the same feeds independently. ## Actor input object example ```json { "feeds": [ "hnrss.org/frontpage", "apify/crawlee", "https://www.githubstatus.com" ], "onlyNew": true, "maxItemsPerFeed": 100, "digestGroup": "default" } ``` # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "feeds": [ "hnrss.org/frontpage", "apify/crawlee", "https://www.githubstatus.com" ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("gratifying_graph/feed-digest-monitor").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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "feeds": [ "hnrss.org/frontpage", "apify/crawlee", "https://www.githubstatus.com", ] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("gratifying_graph/feed-digest-monitor").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "feeds": [ "hnrss.org/frontpage", "apify/crawlee", "https://www.githubstatus.com" ] }' | apify call gratifying_graph/feed-digest-monitor --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=gratifying_graph/feed-digest-monitor", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Feed Digest Monitor - RSS, Atom, GitHub, Status Pages", "description": "Poll RSS/Atom feeds, GitHub releases, and statuspage.io status pages, and get ONLY the items that are new since your last run. The missing dedup layer for feed monitoring: schedule it and receive a clean change digest instead of the same items again and again.", "version": "1.0", "x-build-id": "7Xo4sAWGjMexp34UB" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/gratifying_graph~feed-digest-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-gratifying_graph-feed-digest-monitor", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/gratifying_graph~feed-digest-monitor/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-gratifying_graph-feed-digest-monitor", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/gratifying_graph~feed-digest-monitor/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-gratifying_graph-feed-digest-monitor", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "feeds" ], "properties": { "feeds": { "title": "Feeds", "type": "array", "description": "RSS/Atom URLs, GitHub repos as owner/repo (release feed), or statuspage.io base URLs (e.g. https://www.githubstatus.com).", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "onlyNew": { "title": "Only new items", "type": "boolean", "description": "Output only items not seen by a previous run. First run outputs everything and saves the baseline.", "default": true }, "maxItemsPerFeed": { "title": "Max items per feed", "minimum": 1, "type": "integer", "description": "Cap on the number of items read from each feed per run.", "default": 100 }, "digestGroup": { "title": "Digest group", "type": "string", "description": "Advanced: namespace for seen-item memory. Different groups track the same feeds independently.", "default": "default" } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```