RSS Feed Finder & Reader – auto-discover feeds, get the latest articles

Enter any website and get all its RSS, Atom and JSON feeds – or directly their latest articles as clean JSON: title, link, publication date, summary, author, categories and image.

No need to know where the feed is: the Actor finds it for you. Built for content monitoring, competitor tracking, news aggregation, newsletters, SEO research and AI agents that need fresh content from many sites.

Why this Actor

• 🔎 Automatic feed discovery – reads the page's <link rel="alternate"> tags, feed links on the page, then common locations (/feed, /rss.xml, /atom.xml, /index.xml, /feed.json…).
• 📰 All formats – RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0 (RDF), Atom and JSON Feed, normalized into one clean schema.
• 🧭 Two modes – items for the latest articles, feeds for discovery only (one row per feed with item count and last publication date).
• 🗓️ Date filters – "published after" a date, or "last N days": schedule it daily with N = 1 and get only new articles.
• 🧹 Clean data – HTML stripped from summaries, dates in ISO 8601 (UTC), duplicate feeds removed (same feed reachable from different URLs).
• 🌐 Many sites in one run – with per-feed and per-site limits.
• 📋 Per-site report – a SUMMARY record lists the feeds found for every site, or why none were found (no_feed, blocked, unreachable).
• ✅ Reliable and gentle – only the page and the feed files are requested, robots.txt is respected, protections are never bypassed.

How to use

1. Add websites (example.com), sections (example.com/blog) or direct feed URLs.
2. Choose Articles or Feeds only.
3. Optionally set Only articles published after and the limits.
4. Click Start and download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or via API.

Input example

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://blog.apify.com" }, { "url": "https://www.theverge.com" }],
  "outputMode": "items",
  "maxItemsPerFeed": 20,
  "publishedAfter": "2026-09-01"
}

Output example – articles

{
  "title": "How to monitor your competitors' content",
  "link": "https://example.com/blog/monitor-competitors",
  "published": "2026-09-26T10:00:00+00:00",
  "updated": "2026-09-26T10:00:00+00:00",
  "author": "Jane Doe",
  "summary": "A practical guide to tracking what your competitors publish…",
  "categories": ["marketing", "seo"],
  "image": "https://example.com/img/cover.jpg",
  "guid": "https://example.com/?p=123",
  "feedUrl": "https://example.com/feed",
  "feedType": "rss",
  "feedTitle": "Example Blog",
  "siteDomain": "example.com",
  "extractedAt": "2026-09-28T11:00:00+00:00"
}

Output example – feeds only

{
  "feedUrl": "https://example.com/feed",
  "feedType": "rss",
  "feedTitle": "Example Blog",
  "siteDomain": "example.com",
  "description": "News and guides from Example",
  "siteUrl": "https://example.com/",
  "language": "en-US",
  "itemCount": 10,
  "lastPublished": "2026-09-26T10:00:00+00:00",
  "discoveredVia": "homepage"
}

Use with AI agents

Give your agent fresh, structured content from any site with one call: pass a domain, get the latest articles with dates and summaries. Use publishedWithinDays to fetch only what's new since the last run. Works with the Apify API, Apify MCP server, Make, Zapier, n8n and LangChain.

Pricing

Pay only for results: $2.00 per 1,000 results (articles or feeds). No subscription. Set Maximum cost per run in Run options to cap your spend.

FAQ

The site has no feed. What happens? The SUMMARY record shows no_feed for that site. You are only charged for results actually returned.

Some sites return "blocked". A few websites refuse automated access. This Actor respects that and never tries to bypass protections: it moves on and reports blocked.

Does it download full articles? No – it returns what the feed provides (title, link, date, summary, image). That is why it is fast and cheap. Need page URLs of a whole site instead? Use our Sitemap URL Extractor.

Can I check that article links still work? Yes: send the link values to our Bulk URL Status & Redirect Checker (paste the Dataset ID and set the URL field to link) to get status codes, redirect chains and final URLs.

How do I monitor sites for new articles? Create a Task with your sites, set "Only articles from the last N days" = 1 and add a daily schedule. Connect it to Slack, email, Google Sheets or a webhook via Integrations.

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• Sitemap URL Extractor – every URL of a website from its sitemaps, with lastmod dates.
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• Bulk On-Page SEO Checker – titles, meta descriptions, H1, canonical, noindex, Open Graph and schema.org for thousands of pages, with ready-made SEO issues.

Support

Found a site that doesn't work as expected? Open an issue on the Issues tab with the URL: fixes are usually shipped within days.