📰 RSS Feed Reader — RSS, Atom & JSON Feed to Rows

Give feed links (RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0/RDF, Atom or JSON Feed) or just website links, and get every item as a clean row: title, link, guid, published and updated dates in UTC, summary as plain text, optional full content HTML, categories, enclosures (podcast audio, video) and the item image.

Website links work too: the actor reads the page's <link rel="alternate"> tags and follows up to three feeds it advertises. Items are de-duplicated across feeds, and can be filtered by date and keywords. Author names are not delivered.

The unit of output is one feed item delivered.

Who buys this and for what job

• News and media monitoring across many outlets and agencies on a schedule.
• Podcast tools listing episodes with audio enclosures.
• AI agents and newsletters pulling the latest posts in a clean, uniform shape.
• Developers replacing a feed parser and its edge cases with one API.

Buyers usually search for this as "RSS feed reader", "RSS to JSON" or "RSS parser API".

📊 Sample Output

feed_title	title	published_at	link
NASA	NASA Names Stephen Cash Marshall Space Flight Center Director	2026-10-16T20:14:39Z	https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-names-stephen-cash-marshall-space-flight-center-director/
NASA	Artemis II Heat Shield After Splashdown	2026-10-16T16:28:01Z	https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/artemis-ii-heat-shield-after-splashdown/
NASA	I Am Artemis: Allison Mjoen	2026-10-16T14:24:29Z	https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/i-am-artemis-allison-mjoen/
NASA	NASA’s Hubble Spies Spiral’s Edge	2026-10-16T12:42:08Z	https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-spies-spirals-edge/
NASA	APOD: 2026 October 16 – Chasing the International Space Station	2026-10-16T04:05:00Z	https://science.nasa.gov/image-article/apod-2026-october-16-chasing-the-international-space-station/

Rows from live run SvRdfMmk7lmnd7EdQ on Apify (the Store example: the Federal Reserve press-release feed and NASA's news-release feed). Notice that both feeds come back in one shape even though they are built differently.

✅ What you get

Every field of each record:

• record_id — stable id from the feed and the item's guid (or link); use it to upsert.
• feed_url, feed_source_url, feed_title, feed_site_link, feed_format, feed_language — the link you gave, the feed actually read, and the feed's details.
• item_position — position in the feed (1 = first).
• title, link, guid — the item.
• published_at, updated_at — dates in UTC.
• summary_text, content_html — summary as plain text (up to 5,000 characters) and full content HTML (with includeContent).
• categories, enclosures, image_url, comments_link — tags, attached files (url, type, length), item image and comments link.
• read_at — when the feed was read (UTC).

⚙️ Sample inputs

Two agency feeds (the Store example)

{
  "feedUrls": ["https://www.federalreserve.gov/feeds/press_all.xml", "https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/feed/"],
  "maxItems": 10
}

Newest items first, as the feeds list them.

Find the feed from a website

{
  "feedUrls": ["https://www.nasa.gov/"],
  "maxItems": 10
}

Reads the feed the homepage advertises.

Keyword and date filter with full content

{
  "feedUrls": ["https://www.federalreserve.gov/feeds/press_all.xml"],
  "keywords": ["enforcement"],
  "publishedAfter": "2026-09-01",
  "includeContent": true,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Only matching items since 1 September.

Input fields:

Field	Meaning
feedUrls	feed or website links (up to 2,000).
discoverFeeds	follow feeds advertised by web pages (default true).
publishedAfter	date like 2026-10-01; undated items are skipped when set.
keywords	keep items whose title, summary or categories contain any of these.
includeContent	add full content HTML (default false).
maxItemsPerFeed	items read per feed, in feed order (default 100).
maxItems	stop after this many delivered items (default 1,000). Each delivered item is billed.

🧾 JSON sample record

{
  "record_id": "54dc396b11aed1ae01c5051d",
  "feed_url": "https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/feed/",
  "feed_source_url": "https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/feed/",
  "feed_title": "NASA",
  "feed_site_link": "https://www.nasa.gov",
  "feed_format": "rss2",
  "feed_language": "en-US",
  "item_position": 1,
  "title": "NASA Names Stephen Cash Marshall Space Flight Center Director",
  "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-names-stephen-cash-marshall-space-flight-center-director/",
  "guid": "https://www.nasa.gov/?post_type=press-release&p=1057238",
  "published_at": "2026-10-16T20:14:39Z",
  "updated_at": null,
  "summary_text": "NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has named Stephen Cash director of the agency’ …",
  "content_html": null,
  "categories": [
    "Leadership",
    "Marshall Space Flight Center",
    "NASA Headquarters"
  ],
  "enclosures": null,
  "image_url": null,
  "comments_link": null,
  "read_at": "2026-10-17T03:46:16Z"
}

🔧 How it works

Feeds are fetched 8 at a time and parsed with a hardened XML parser (no external entities, no network access from the XML). RSS dates (RFC 822) and Atom dates (ISO 8601) are both turned into UTC.

Every run reads each host's robots.txt first: a path it disallows is skipped, listed in the run receipt and never charged. Only public internet addresses are fetched (no private, loopback or cloud-metadata addresses, checked again on every redirect). No logins, no CAPTCHA solving, no proxies.

Delivery is pushed first and charged after. The run receipt (RUN_RECEIPT) lists every link: feeds discovered, items in the feed, read, matching, duplicates skipped and delivered, plus the robots.txt result and the delivered and charged counts.

💰 Pricing example

Per item delivered, no start fee, no monthly charge:

Apify plan	Price per item
Free	$0.05
Bronze	$0.045
Silver	$0.04
Gold, Platinum, Diamond	$0.0335

• 10 items: $0.50 on the Free plan, $0.335 on Gold.
• 1,000 items: $50.00 on Free, $33.50 on Gold.
• 10,000 items: $500.00 on Free, $335.00 on Gold.

Coverage and size. Proof runs on 17 Oct 2026: the Federal Reserve feed held 20 items and NASA's 10 (both delivered in about 3 seconds); the Federal Register feed held 200; NASA's homepage advertised its feed and it was found; GitHub's .atom release feeds were skipped because GitHub's robots.txt disallows them.

⚖️ Legal & ToS

Feed content belongs to its publishers. You choose the links. Make sure you have the right to download and use the content you point it at; the actor fetches only what you give it (and, where you turn it on, what those pages link to).

Every run reads each host's robots.txt first: a path it disallows is skipped, listed in the run receipt and never charged. Only public internet addresses are fetched (no private, loopback or cloud-metadata addresses, checked again on every redirect). No logins, no CAPTCHA solving, no proxies.

❓ FAQ

Does it keep history? No. Each run reads what the feed holds now; run it on a schedule and upsert by record_id.

Why is an author missing? Author names are not delivered.

Can it read feeds behind a login? No.

🆘 Troubleshooting

• no feed: the link is a web page — The page advertises no feed; find the feed link on the site and give it directly.
• Fewer items than expected — Feeds only hold their latest items (often 10 to 50); check maxItemsPerFeed and your filters.
• SOURCE UNAVAILABLE — None of your links could be reached after retries. Nothing was charged.

🔗 Related Actors

• PR Newswire Scraper — press releases by company or topic
• Website Tech Stack Detector — what a site is built with
• Website Contact Scraper — contact details from website lists

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