RSS Feed Finder & Parser 📡

Discover any website's RSS/Atom feeds and pull recent items — clean JSON, no API key.

Point it at a blog or news homepage and it finds the feeds automatically. Point it at a feed URL and it parses the entries straight away. Built for content aggregation, news monitoring, competitive intelligence, and RAG pipelines that need fresh, structured article data.

• ✅ Auto feed discovery — reads <link rel="alternate"> tags and probes common feed paths (/feed, /rss.xml, /atom.xml, /index.xml, /feeds/posts/default, /?feed=rss2, …)
• ✅ RSS + Atom parsing via the battle-tested feedparser
• ✅ Clean output — HTML stripped, dates normalized to ISO 8601, categories as a list
• ✅ No login, no key, no proxy required — pure HTTP, datacenter-friendly (operates on the URLs you supply)
• ✅ Cheap — pay-per-result, roughly $0.50 per 1,000 items

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What you get

One dataset item per feed entry:

Field	Description
site	The site URL you supplied (discover mode)
feed_url	The feed the entry came from
feed_title	Title of the feed / channel
title	Entry title
link	Canonical link to the article
published	Publish date, normalized to ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ)
author	Entry author (best-effort)
summary	Description/content with HTML stripped, capped at 3,000 chars
categories	List of tags/categories
guid	Feed-provided unique id
source	Always rss-feed-finder
scraped_at	When the run fetched the item (ISO 8601)

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
mode	select	discover	discover (site URLs → find feeds → parse) or parse (feed URLs → parse)
urls	array	—	Website/blog URLs to scan (discover mode)
feedUrls	array	—	Direct feed URLs to parse (parse mode)
maxItemsPerFeed	integer	50	Cap per individual feed
maxItems	integer	200	Total cap per run (max 2,000)

Example — discover mode

{
  "mode": "discover",
  "urls": ["https://blog.cloudflare.com", "https://techcrunch.com"],
  "maxItemsPerFeed": 50,
  "maxItems": 200
}

Example — parse mode

{
  "mode": "parse",
  "feedUrls": ["https://blog.cloudflare.com/rss/"],
  "maxItemsPerFeed": 100
}

Example output item

{
  "site": "https://blog.cloudflare.com",
  "feed_url": "https://blog.cloudflare.com/rss/",
  "feed_title": "The Cloudflare Blog",
  "title": "Cloudflare Internal DNS is now generally available",
  "link": "https://blog.cloudflare.com/internal-dns/",
  "published": "2026-07-20T20:59:31Z",
  "author": "Hannes Gerhart",
  "summary": "Cloudflare Internal DNS brings authoritative and recursive DNS for private networks…",
  "categories": ["DNS", "Networking", "Product News", "Zero Trust"],
  "guid": "https://blog.cloudflare.com/internal-dns/",
  "source": "rss-feed-finder",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-21T13:04:00Z"
}

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Use cases

• Content aggregation — build a multi-source reading feed or newsletter digest
• News monitoring — track a set of blogs/newsrooms and alert on new posts
• RAG feeds — keep a vector store fresh with the latest articles from your sources
• Competitive intelligence — watch competitors' blogs and changelogs for updates

Tips

• In discover mode, if a site exposes no <link rel="alternate"> tag, the actor still probes common feed paths, so most WordPress/Ghost/Substack/Blogger sites just work.
• Feed URLs are also accepted in the urls field in parse mode (they'll be parsed directly).
• Schedule the actor to run on an interval and connect the dataset to your database, Zapier/Make, or a webhook.

Related actors by the same author

• Newsletter Scraper
• Google News Scraper
• Smart Article Extractor
• Medium Scraper

Keywords

rss, atom, rss feed finder, rss parser, feed discovery, news monitoring, content aggregation, rag, article feed, blog feed, rss to json, feed reader, syndication