# RSS Feed Reader — RSS, Atom & JSON Feed to Clean Data (`northbell/rss-feed-reader`) Actor

Read any RSS, Atom or JSON Feed — or just give a website and the feed is found for you — and get every item in one clean table: title, link, date, categories, summary, optional full text and media. Keyword and date filters, and only new items since your last run.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/northbell/rss-feed-reader.md
- **Developed by:** [Northbell](https://apify.com/northbell) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.40 / 1,000 items

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## RSS Feed Reader — RSS, Atom & JSON Feed to Clean Data

Give it **feed URLs — or just websites** — and get every item from **RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0, Atom and JSON Feed** in one consistent table: **title, link, published and updated dates, categories, summary**, optionally the **full text**, and **media enclosures** (podcast audio, images). Filter by keyword and date, and schedule it with *Only new items* to turn any set of blogs, news sites or release notes into one clean stream.

### What you get

| Row | Fields |
|---|---|
| `feed` (free) | `input`, `feedUrl`, `format`, `title`, `link`, `description`, `language`, `itemsInFeed` |
| `item` | `feedTitle`, `feedUrl`, `guid`, `title`, `link`, `publishedAt`, `updatedAt`, `categories`, `summary`, `content` (with *Include full text*), `enclosure`, `isNewSinceLastRun` |

Author names are **not** collected, and email addresses in item text are replaced with `[email removed]`.

### Use it for

- **Content monitoring** — new posts from competitors, news sites and changelogs into Slack, a sheet or a database
- **News and research digests** — keyword-filtered items from dozens of sources, every morning
- **AI pipelines** — clean text with links and dates for summaries and RAG
- **Podcast and media lists** — enclosures with audio URLs and sizes

### Input

```json
{ "feeds": ["https://github.blog/feed/", "https://www.theverge.com", "https://hnrss.org/frontpage"], "keywords": ["ai"], "onlyNew": true }
```

Measured on October 7, 2026: 7 inputs (RSS, Atom, a podcast feed, a website whose feed was found automatically, and two that had no feed) in 2 seconds; JSON Feeds from jsonfeed.org and daringfireball.net read correctly.

### Pricing

**$0.50 per 1,000 items**, plus $0.01 per run. Feed rows, error rows and items left out by your filters are free. The $0.01 run-start fee is the one charge every run pays, even one that returns nothing.

### For AI agents

`{"feeds": ["https://github.blog/feed/"], "maxItemsPerFeed": 5}` returns the 5 newest posts. Rows have `type`: `feed`, `item` or `error`.

# Actor input Schema

## `feeds` (type: `array`):

Feed URLs (RSS, Atom, JSON Feed) or website URLs — for a website, the feed it links to is used.

## `maxItemsPerFeed` (type: `integer`):

How many items to return from each feed, newest first.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Keep items whose title, summary or categories contain any of these.

## `postedWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

Keep only items published within this many days. Leave empty to keep every item in the feed.

## `includeContent` (type: `boolean`):

Adds the item's full content as plain text when the feed carries it.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

From the second run on, return only items not returned before for that feed. Schedule it to get a clean feed of new items.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "feeds": [
    "https://github.blog/feed/",
    "https://www.theverge.com"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerFeed": 100,
  "includeContent": false,
  "onlyNew": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `items` (type: `string`):

Feed items with title, link, date and summary.

## `feeds` (type: `string`):

The feeds that were read.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "feeds": [
        "https://github.blog/feed/",
        "https://www.theverge.com"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("northbell/rss-feed-reader").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "feeds": [
        "https://github.blog/feed/",
        "https://www.theverge.com",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("northbell/rss-feed-reader").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "feeds": [
    "https://github.blog/feed/",
    "https://www.theverge.com"
  ]
}' |
apify call northbell/rss-feed-reader --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,northbell/rss-feed-reader"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/4MY261IVBJfBBsxVz/builds/oWIN0BM6RsTxMiDZO/openapi.json