RSS Feed Reader 📰

Turn any RSS, Atom or podcast feed into clean, structured data.

Give it a feed URL — or just a website URL and it finds the feed for you — and get back every item as a tidy record: title, link, author, publish date, full content, categories, media and podcast duration. Works with RSS 2.0, Atom, RSS 1.0 (RDF) and podcast feeds, and lets you filter by keyword or date.

Perfect for news monitoring, content aggregation, AI/RAG pipelines, podcast tracking and automation — no code required.

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⚡ At a glance

📡 Every format	RSS 2.0, Atom, RDF and podcast feeds
🔎 Auto-discovery	Paste a website URL — the feed is found automatically
📄 Full content	Title, summary and full article/episode text (clean)
🎧 Podcast-ready	Audio/video enclosure URL, type and duration
🔍 Filters	Keyword and "since date" filtering
📦 Bulk	Read one feed or thousands from a list
⚡ Fast & cheap	Pure-HTTP — no browser
💾 Export	Excel, CSV, JSON, HTML or API

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📌 Why this Actor?

Feeds come in many flavors and are messy to parse. This Actor normalizes them all into one clean schema:

• 📡 Any feed format — RSS, Atom, RDF and podcast (iTunes) feeds, including CDATA, namespaces and malformed markup.
• 🔎 Feed auto-discovery — don't know the feed URL? Paste the site's homepage and the Actor locates the <link rel="alternate"> feed for you.
• 📄 Clean content — HTML stripped to readable plain text, with an option to keep the raw HTML.
• 🎧 Podcast metadata — enclosure (MP3/MP4) URL, media type, and episode duration in seconds.
• 🔍 Built-in filters — keyword and since-date so you only pull what you need.
• 📦 Bulk-friendly — feed a big list of feeds and get one merged, structured dataset.

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✨ What you get (data fields)

One row per feed item (article / episode), with its source feed attached.

📰 Item

Field	Description
title	Item title
link	Item URL
author	Author / creator
publishedAt	Publish date (ISO 8601)
summary	Short summary (plain text)
content	Full content (plain text)
contentHtml	Raw HTML content (optional)
categories	Categories / tags
guid	Unique item identifier
commentsUrl	Comments page URL

🎧 Media & podcast

Field	Description
isPodcast	Whether the item has audio/video media
mediaUrl	Enclosure / media URL (audio, video, image)
mediaType	Media MIME type (e.g. audio/mpeg)
mediaLength	Media size in bytes
durationSeconds	Podcast episode duration
image	Item image URL

📡 Feed context

Field	Description
feedTitle	Source feed title
feedLink	Feed website link
feedDescription	Feed description
feedLanguage	Feed language
feedUrl	Source feed URL

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🚀 Quick start

1. Click Try for free / Start.
2. Add your Feed URLs — one per line (feed or website URL):

   https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml
   https://www.theverge.com
   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/vergecast
   

3. (Optional) Set Max items per feed, a Keyword, or a Since date.
4. Click Save & Start, then export from the Dataset tab.

💡 Tip: Don't have the feed URL? Just paste the website — the Actor discovers the feed automatically.

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🎯 Use cases

Use case	What it delivers
📰 News & brand monitoring	Track publishers or a keyword across many feeds in one dataset.
🤖 AI / RAG pipelines	Feed clean article text straight into LLMs, embeddings or a vector DB.
🎧 Podcast tracking	Collect episodes with audio URLs and durations for analysis or downloads.
🧲 Content aggregation	Build a unified feed for a newsletter, dashboard or Slack digest.
🕵️ Competitor content	Watch competitors' blogs and see what they publish, when.
🔁 Automation	Trigger Make / Zapier flows on new items via the API.

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⚙️ Input reference

Input	Type	Default	Description
Feed URLs	list	sample	Feed or website URLs, one per line.
Feed URLs from file / list	list	—	Bulk-load feeds from a file, URL or Google Sheet.
Max items per feed	number	0	Cap per feed. 0 = all.
Keyword filter	string	—	Only items whose title/content contains this text.
Only items since (date)	string	—	Only items on/after this date (e.g. 2026-07-01).
Include full content	boolean	true	Add full plain-text content.
Include raw HTML content	boolean	false	Also keep the original HTML.
Proxy configuration	object	Datacenter	Default is more than enough.
Max concurrent requests	number	8	Feeds read in parallel (5–15 recommended).

📥 Example input

{
  "feedUrls": [
    "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml",
    "https://www.theverge.com",
    "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/vergecast"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerFeed": 50,
  "keyword": "AI",
  "sinceDate": "2026-07-01"
}

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📤 Example output

{
  "feedTitle": "The Vergecast",
  "feedUrl": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/vergecast",
  "title": "You can't ignore Google Zero anymore",
  "link": "https://www.theverge.com/...",
  "author": "The Verge",
  "publishedAt": "2026-07-24T16:21:00.000Z",
  "summary": "This week on the flagship podcast of search results…",
  "content": "This week on the flagship podcast of The Verge…",
  "categories": ["Podcasts", "Tech"],
  "isPodcast": true,
  "mediaUrl": "https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/...",
  "mediaType": "audio/mpeg",
  "mediaLength": 90123456,
  "durationSeconds": 5627,
  "image": "https://megaphone.imgix.net/...",
  "guid": "abcd-1234"
}

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💡 Tips & best practices

• ✅ Paste websites, not just feeds — auto-discovery finds the feed for you.
• ✅ Use the keyword filter to monitor a topic across dozens of publishers.
• ✅ Use since date for incremental runs — only pull what's new.
• ✅ Turn off raw HTML for clean text; turn it on when you need the original markup.
• ✅ Schedule it to build a rolling dataset of new items over time.
• ✅ Bulk-load feeds from a file for large monitoring lists.

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❓ FAQ

Which feed formats are supported? RSS 2.0, Atom 1.0, RSS 1.0 (RDF) and podcast (iTunes) feeds.

I only have the website, not the feed URL. Paste the website — the Actor auto-discovers the feed from the page.

Can I get podcast audio URLs? Yes — mediaUrl, mediaType and durationSeconds are returned for podcast items.

Do I need to code? No. Add feed URLs, click Start, export. The API is available for automation.

How many feeds can I read? As many as you like — load them from a list and raise concurrency.

In what format is the data? Structured JSON by default, exportable to CSV, Excel, HTML or via API.

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📊 Output & integrations

Results are stored in a standard Apify dataset. You can:

• 👀 Preview them in a clean table view in the Console.
• 💾 Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or RSS.
• 🔌 Pull them via the Apify API.
• 🔗 Push them to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, Airbyte and more.

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⚖️ Legal & responsible use

This Actor reads publicly published feeds for legitimate purposes such as monitoring, aggregation and research.

• Respect each publisher's terms of service and copyright — feed content remains the property of its publisher.
• Use collected content in compliance with applicable laws.
• You are responsible for how you use the collected data.

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🛟 Support

Found a bug, need an extra field, or want a tweak? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab — feedback is welcome and helps improve the Actor.

Happy reading! 📰