RSS Feed Reader — RSS, Atom & JSON Feeds to JSON, $0.001 a Feed
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RSS Feed Reader — RSS, Atom & JSON Feeds to JSON, $0.001 a Feed
Read RSS, Atom and JSON Feed URLs into clean JSON: the feed's title and link and every item's title, link, dates, summary and enclosures. One record per feed, robots.txt obeyed, failed feeds never charged. $0.001 per feed read.
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Read RSS, Atom and JSON Feed URLs into clean JSON, one record per feed with the feed's title and link and each item's title, link, dates, summary and enclosures, for news monitoring, podcasts and agent pipelines. AI agents can call and pay for it through Apify's MCP server and agentic payments. It costs $0.001 per feed read, whatever the number of items, and a feed that fails is never charged.
Example result
Example record for the minimal input under How to use it, as this Actor returned it on 2026-10-27 in a run of its production image; the record is kept unchanged with the release.
How to use it
Start a run in Apify Console, by API or from an agent with an input like this one — it is the input Apify runs every day to test this Actor:
| Field | Type | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
urls | array | Feed URLs (RSS, Atom or JSON Feed); one record each. |
maxItems | integer | At most this many items are returned per feed, newest first. |
Events and prices
| Event | Title | Charged when | FREE / BRONZE | SILVER | GOLD / PLATINUM / DIAMOND |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
feed-read | Feed read | One feed fetched and its items returned. | $0.001 | $0.0009 | $0.0008 |
Platform usage is not passed through. Apify's automatic actor-start event remains $0.00005 per started GB (one GB or less counts once). The synthetic dataset-item event is absent. Charge limits stop further paying work; unprocessed inputs receive uncharged errors. Completed readable pending events are settled on abort.
Worked cost example: ten successful feed read events cost $0.01 at list, plus actor start. Failures are not included in that count.
Call it from an agent
Through Apify's MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com) use call-actor:
Then call get-dataset-items with the returned defaultDatasetId. Dedicated tool URL: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=hermeskd/rss-feed-reader
Output fields
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
url | The input URL. |
ok | True for a returned result; a failure is never charged. |
finalUrl | The URL after redirects. |
format | rss, atom or json. |
feedTitle | The feed's title. |
feedLink | The site the feed belongs to. |
itemCount | Items returned. |
items | Each item's id, title, link, published and updated dates, summary and enclosures; authors are not returned. |
error | Failure, always uncharged. |
Limits and run time
1–100 feed URLs a run; up to maxItems items each (500 at most). Each feed is fetched once, up to 5 MB, under the 30-second per-request deadline. Item authors are not returned.
The default run timeout is 600 seconds. Typical run time: not yet measured; written from the first deploy.
Errors
| Code | Meaning |
|---|---|
http_error | The source answered an unsuccessful HTTP status. |
download_failed | The request or connection failed within its bounded deadline. |
not_a_feed | The URL did not return an RSS, Atom or JSON feed. |
robots_disallowed | robots.txt forbids fetching the URL; no request was made to it. |
blocked_host | The host is on the deny-list or resolves to a private or local address; no request was made. |
too_large | The response exceeded the size cap. |
timeout | The input did not finish within the run's time budget. |
invalid_input | The run input passed the input schema but cannot be used; the message names the field. |
internal_error | Unexpected failure; the message carries the error class. |
charge_limit_reached | The run reached its maximum total charge; this input was not processed. |
No failure record is charged. A run fails only when all input outcomes are Actor-side failures; caller errors and a mixture of caller/Actor failures do not fail the run.
Sources and terms
Only process content you have the right to process. URL fetches obey HermesBot robots-group selection, the shared deny-list, public-address checks on connections and redirects, honest identity, deadlines and rate limits. No caller credentials, cookies, CAPTCHA solving, residential proxies or evasion. Public feeds the caller names are fetched under robots.txt; parsed with lxml, entities and network access off; JSON Feed read as JSON.
Not affiliated
This Actor is not affiliated with Apify or the owners of the feeds it reads. Third-party names describe compatibility and source material.
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Changelog
- 1.0 (2026-10-27) — first release.
