# RSS Feed Reader (RSS, Atom & JSON Feed, Auto-Discovery) (`pagecraft/rss-feed-reader`) Actor

Read any RSS, Atom or JSON feed, or give a website and the feed is found for you. Titles, links, dates, authors, images, full text and podcast enclosures.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/pagecraft/rss-feed-reader.md
- **Developed by:** [Pagecraft Tools](https://apify.com/pagecraft) (community)
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 item scrapeds

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 and JSON Feed with Auto-Discovery

Read any **RSS**, **Atom** or **JSON Feed** in bulk, or just give a website and its feed is found for you. Get clean items with title, link, date, author, categories, image, full text and podcast enclosures.

### What it does

- Supports RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0 (RDF), Atom and JSON Feed, including podcast feeds (`itunes:` fields) and media images.
- **Auto-discovery**: give `https://example.com` and the tool reads the feed the site advertises, or tries the usual addresses (`/feed`, `/rss.xml`, `/atom.xml` and more).
- One format for every feed type, with dates converted to ISO 8601.
- Filters by keyword and publish date, so you only pay for relevant items.
- Full content as plain text (default), HTML or left out.

### Who it's for

- **News and content monitoring**: track publications, competitors and blogs in one dataset.
- **AI and LLM pipelines**: feed fresh articles into summarisers, newsletters or RAG systems.
- **Podcast tracking**: episode titles, dates, audio links and durations.
- Schedule it on Apify to check feeds every hour or day.

### Input

| Field | What to enter |
| --- | --- |
| Feeds or websites | Feed URLs or website addresses, one per line |
| Maximum items per feed | Newest first |
| Items published since | Optional date |
| Only items mentioning | Optional keywords |
| Full content | Plain text, HTML or leave out |
| Read every feed a website links to | Off reads the main feed only |

```json
{ "feeds": ["https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml", "https://github.blog"], "maxItemsPerFeed": 20, "keywords": ["AI"] }
```

### Output

```json
{
  "feedTitle": "BBC News", "feedUrl": "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml", "siteUrl": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news",
  "title": "Headline here", "link": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/abc", "guid": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/abc",
  "published": "2026-10-27T09:00:00.000Z", "author": null, "categories": [], "summary": "Short summary...",
  "content": "Full text when the feed includes it", "imageUrl": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/...jpg",
  "enclosureUrl": null, "duration": null
}
```

### Pricing

| Event | When it is charged | Price per 1,000 (Free / Bronze / Silver / Gold plan) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Feed checked | Each feed or website you list: finding and downloading its feed, once per started 1.5 MB. Also charged when no feed is found. | $1.50 on every plan |
| Item scraped | Each feed item returned in the dataset. | $0.80 / $0.70 / $0.60 / $0.50 |

Example: 50 feeds with 20 items each on the Free plan costs about 50 × $0.0015 + 1,000 × $0.0008 = $0.88.

### Notes and limits

- Feeds larger than 8 MB are read up to that size.
- Many feeds only include their latest 10 to 50 items; older items are not in the feed.
- Feeds behind a login or paywall cannot be read.

### More Pagecraft tools

- [Telegram Channel Scraper](https://apify.com/pagecraft/telegram-channel-scraper): posts, views and reactions from any public Telegram channel.
- [App Store Reviews Scraper (iOS Reviews & Ratings)](https://apify.com/pagecraft/app-store-reviews-scraper): iOS App Store reviews and ratings for any app.
- [Sitemap URL Extractor (Every URL from Any Website)](https://apify.com/pagecraft/sitemap-url-extractor): every URL from a website's sitemaps.
- [UK Government Tenders Scraper (Find a Tender & Contracts)](https://apify.com/pagecraft/uk-tenders-finder): UK government tenders from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder.

# Actor input Schema

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

Feed URLs, or website addresses: the site's feed is found for you. One per line.

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

Newest items first, as the feed lists them.

## `itemsSince` (type: `string`):

Only items published on or after this date.

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

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

## `content` (type: `string`):

The item's full content, when the feed includes it.

## `allDiscoveredFeeds` (type: `boolean`):

Some sites advertise several feeds (posts, comments, categories). Off reads only the main one.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional. Apify datacenter proxies or your own proxies. Residential proxies are not supported.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "feeds": [
    "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml",
    "https://hnrss.org/frontpage",
    "https://github.blog"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerFeed": 10,
  "content": "text",
  "allDiscoveredFeeds": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml",
        "https://hnrss.org/frontpage",
        "https://github.blog"
    ],
    "maxItemsPerFeed": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("pagecraft/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://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml",
        "https://hnrss.org/frontpage",
        "https://github.blog",
    ],
    "maxItemsPerFeed": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("pagecraft/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://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml",
    "https://hnrss.org/frontpage",
    "https://github.blog"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerFeed": 10
}' |
apify call pagecraft/rss-feed-reader --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,pagecraft/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/WjaYWesLFG5aZbnHB/builds/eGT4fZGHmEtH3ZfQv/openapi.json