RSS & Atom Feed Reader – Monitor Feeds, Only New Items

Turn any RSS, Atom or JSON feed into clean, structured data, or just paste a website URL and let the Actor find the feed for you. You get one row per article, episode or post with title, link, publication date (normalized to ISO 8601 UTC), author, categories, summary, plain text, image and podcast enclosures. Built for scheduled monitoring: with Only new items each run returns just the items you have not received yet. Feeds that did not change are skipped with HTTP 304, so a monitor of 100 feeds runs in seconds.

Why this Actor

• 🔎 Feed auto-discovery. Enter https://www.tagesschau.de and the Actor finds index~atom.xml through <link rel="alternate">, feed links on the page, or common paths (/feed, /rss.xml, /atom.xml, /index.xml, Blogger, WordPress …).
• 📰 All formats in one schema. RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0/RDF, Atom and JSON Feed, with Dublin Core, content:encoded, Media RSS and iTunes podcast tags. Dates in RFC 822, ISO 8601 and even German weekday/month names are normalized to UTC.
• 🔔 Only new items (monitoring mode). Remembers what it delivered (per feed, in a named key-value store) and uses ETag / Last-Modified, so you only pay for and process what is new. Use separate state keys for separate monitors.
• 🎯 Filters. Published within the last N days or after a date, include/exclude keywords (whole words, case-insensitive) or regular expressions with the re: prefix.
• 🎙️ Podcast-ready. Audio/video enclosures with type and size, episode duration and cover image.
• 🧾 Per-feed summary. A SUMMARY record lists every input with the resolved feed URL, HTTP status, items found/saved/filtered/already seen and the error if a feed failed. One broken feed never breaks the run.
• ⚡ Fast and cheap. Pure HTTP, no browser, no proxy. 11 feeds with 122 items in about 5 seconds at 256 MB.

Use cases

• News and media monitoring: brand, competitor or keyword alerts from news sites and blogs
• Content aggregation: feed a newsletter, Slack/Teams channel, Google Sheet or website
• AI / LLM pipelines: fresh articles with clean text for RAG, summarization or classification
• Podcast data: episode lists with audio URLs and durations
• Release and changelog tracking: GitHub releases (/releases.atom), product blogs, status pages
• SEO and PR: who published what, and when

Input

Field	Description
feedUrls	Feed URLs or website URLs (feed is auto-discovered)
maxItemsPerFeed / maxItems	Limits per feed (default 100) and per run
onlyNew + stateKey	Monitoring mode: only items not delivered in earlier runs
publishedWithinDays / publishedAfter	Date filter; keepItemsWithoutDate (default on)
includeKeywords / excludeKeywords	e.g. ["AI", "re:\\bKI\\b"]
includeContentHtml, maxTextLength	Output options
autodiscover, concurrency	Advanced

{
  "feedUrls": [
    {"url": "https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml"},
    {"url": "https://www.tagesschau.de"},
    {"url": "https://github.com/apify/crawlee/releases.atom"}
  ],
  "onlyNew": true,
  "includeKeywords": ["AI", "Apple"],
  "maxItemsPerFeed": 50
}

Tip for monitoring: create a Task with onlyNew: true, add a Schedule (e.g. hourly) and connect an integration (Slack, email, webhook, Make, n8n, Zapier). The first run returns the current items; later runs return only new ones.

Output (real example, podcast feed)

{
  "title": "A Political Rebellion in the Rio Grande Valley",
  "link": "https://www.nytimes.com/the-daily",
  "guid": "3a0b9778-acb8-4a98-b24e-07fe0131dd03",
  "publishedAt": "2026-11-02T10:50:24+00:00",
  "updatedAt": null,
  "publishedRaw": "Mon, 2 Nov 2026 10:50:24 +0000",
  "author": "thedaily@nytimes.com (The New York Times), The New York Times",
  "categories": [],
  "summary": "In 2024, Hispanic voters in the region delivered a political earthquake: majority support for Republicans. Now, that support appears to be evaporating.",
  "contentText": "Warning: This episode contains strong language. In the midterm elections, one of the regions expected to swing away from President Trump and toward Democrats is the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, where life has been transformed by his administration’s crackdown on immigration. Lynsea Garrison, a …",
  "imageUrl": "https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/34e5431c-f7f7-4edd-9b5d-0277e197a71b/7c687c39-27aa-40a4-b606-8c32fd5cbbc9/02thedaily_youtube_9.jpg",
  "enclosures": [
    {
      "url": "https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/tracking.swap.fm/track/4jdbJYYRKqK96EGqOzQb/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/03d8b493-87fc-4bd1-931f-8a8e9b945d8a/episodes/7bf4706f-de8e-4b7f-99df-a0e4d6c37736/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=03d8b493-87fc-4bd1-931f-8a8e9b945d8a&awEpisodeId=7bf4706f-de8e-4b7f-99df-a0e4d6c37736&feed=54nAGcIl",
      "type": "audio/mpeg",
      "length": "73792530"
    }
  ],
  "duration": "01:16:52",
  "comments": null,
  "feedTitle": "The Daily",
  "feedUrl": "https://feeds.simplecast.com/54nAGcIl",
  "feedLink": "https://www.nytimes.com/the-daily",
  "feedType": "rss",
  "feedLanguage": "en",
  "itemId": "c36b95bfbe915fc8a603",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-02T22:56:39+00:00"
}

Fields: title, link, guid, publishedAt, updatedAt, publishedRaw, author, categories, summary, contentText, contentHtml (optional), imageUrl, enclosures, duration, comments, feedTitle, feedUrl, feedLink, feedType, feedLanguage, itemId (stable hash), scrapedAt.

Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS or via API, webhooks, Make, n8n or Zapier.

Pricing

The Actor is currently free – you only pay Apify platform usage, which is very low because no browser or proxy is used. A fair pay-per-result price may be introduced later; Apify announces such changes at least 14 days in advance. Set Max cost per run to cap your spend.

Notes

• Some websites don't link their feed anywhere (then enter the feed URL directly, e.g. https://www.heise.de/rss/heise-atom.xml).
• Feeds usually contain only the latest 10–100 items; this Actor reads what the feed publishes, it does not crawl article pages.
• In Only new mode with maxItemsPerFeed, items that did not fit are delivered in the next run.
• Respect each publisher's terms. Feeds are published for machine reading; the Actor makes one request per feed (plus a few for discovery).

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🇩🇪 Deutsch: RSS- & Atom-Feed-Reader mit Monitoring

Liest beliebige RSS-, Atom- und JSON-Feeds und liefert saubere Daten: Titel, Link, Datum (ISO 8601), Autor, Kategorien, Zusammenfassung, Volltext, Bild und Podcast-Audio. Es reicht auch die Website-Adresse (z. B. https://www.tagesschau.de) – der Feed wird automatisch gefunden.

Monitoring: Mit Nur neue Einträge liefert jeder Lauf nur Artikel, die Sie noch nicht erhalten haben (unveränderte Feeds werden per HTTP 304 übersprungen). Ideal mit einem Zeitplan und Benachrichtigung per Slack, E-Mail oder Webhook. Dazu kommen Datums- und Stichwortfilter (auch Regex) und eine Zusammenfassung pro Feed.

Ideal für: Medien- und Wettbewerbsbeobachtung, Newsletter und Content-Aggregation, KI-/RAG-Pipelines, Podcast-Daten und Release-Tracking. Die Nutzung ist derzeit kostenlos (nur geringe Apify-Plattformkosten).