# RSS & Atom Feed Reader β€” Feed to JSON, Auto-Discovery, Bulk (`plumbline-data/rss-feed-reader`) Actor Turn any RSS, Atom or JSON Feed into clean JSON. Paste feed URLs or plain website URLs (feeds are auto-discovered). Bulk, de-duplicated, with date and keyword filters, images, podcast enclosures and full content. Respects robots.txt. - **URL**: https://apify.com/plumbline-data/rss-feed-reader.md - **Developed by:** [Plumbline Data](https://apify.com/plumbline-data) (community) - **Categories:** News, Automation - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $0.50 / 1,000 feed 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 & Atom Feed Reader β€” RSS to JSON, Feed Auto-Discovery, Bulk **Convert any RSS, Atom or JSON Feed into clean, consistent JSON** β€” in bulk. Paste feed URLs *or just website URLs* and the Actor finds the feed for you (`` plus common paths like `/feed` and `/rss.xml`). Perfect for news monitoring, content aggregation, podcast catalogs, AI/RAG pipelines and Zapier/Make/n8n automations. ### Features - βœ… RSS 0.9x/1.0/2.0, Atom, JSON Feed 1.x, podcast feeds (enclosures) - πŸ” Feed auto-discovery from homepage URLs - 🧹 One normalized schema: title, link, published (ISO 8601 UTC), author, summary (plain text), categories, image, enclosures - πŸ—“οΈ `publishedAfter` date filter and keyword filter β€” great for scheduled monitoring - ♻️ De-duplicated by feed + item id; optional full `content` HTML - 🀝 Respects robots.txt; clear free error rows (`NO_FEED_FOUND`, `FETCH_FAILED`, `ROBOTS_DISALLOWED`) ### Input example ```json { "feedUrls": ["https://blog.apify.com", "https://hnrss.org/frontpage", "https://feeds.npr.org/510289/podcast.xml"], "maxItemsPerFeed": 20, "publishedAfter": "2026-10-01", "keywords": [] } ``` ### Output example ```json { "title": "Grundwerk Digital finds the leads B2B databases miss with Apify", "link": "https://blog.apify.com/grundwerk-digital-outbound-data-apify/", "published": "2026-10-12T19:56:38Z", "author": "Daniel Lee", "summary": "β€œThere’s no other possibility than using Apify.” How a Berlin outbound agency reaches the businesses no database lists…", "categories": ["Case studies", "Marketing and lead generation"], "image": "https://storage.ghost.io/.../apify-grundwerk-case-study.png", "enclosures": [], "feedTitle": "Apify Blog", "feedUrl": "https://blog.apify.com/rss/", "input": "https://blog.apify.com" } ``` ### Pricing **$1 per 1,000 feed items** (cheaper on higher plans). Errors are free. Set a max charge per run and it stops at your budget. ### Tips - Run it on a **schedule** with `publishedAfter` and send new items to Slack, Google Sheets or a webhook. - Have a site without a feed? Pair with our [Sitemap URL Extractor](https://apify.com/plumbline-data/sitemap-url-extractor) to monitor new pages via `lastmod`. - Need historical URLs for a domain? Use [Wayback Machine URLs](https://apify.com/plumbline-data/wayback-machine-urls). ### Related Plumbline Data Actors - [Sitemap URL Extractor](https://apify.com/plumbline-data/sitemap-url-extractor) - [Wayback Machine URLs](https://apify.com/plumbline-data/wayback-machine-urls) # Changelog This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/plumbline-data/rss-feed-reader/changelog.md # Actor input Schema ## `feedUrls` (type: `array`): RSS/Atom/JSON feed URLs, or website URLs to auto-discover their feed. ## `maxItemsPerFeed` (type: `integer`): 0 = all items in the feed. ## `publishedAfter` (type: `string`): Only items published on/after this date (YYYY-MM-DD). ## `keywords` (type: `array`): Keep items whose title or summary contains one of these words. ## `includeContent` (type: `boolean`): Adds the full content:encoded/Atom content field when the feed provides it. ## Actor input object example ```json { "feedUrls": [ "https://blog.apify.com", "https://hnrss.org/frontpage" ], "maxItemsPerFeed": 50, "keywords": [], "includeContent": false } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `results` (type: `string`): No description ## `summary` (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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "feedUrls": [ "https://blog.apify.com", "https://hnrss.org/frontpage" ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("plumbline-data/rss-feed-reader").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`πŸ’Ύ 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); }); // πŸ“š Want to learn more πŸ“–? Go to β†’ 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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "feedUrls": [ "https://blog.apify.com", "https://hnrss.org/frontpage", ] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("plumbline-data/rss-feed-reader").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print(f"πŸ’Ύ 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) # πŸ“š Want to learn more πŸ“–? Go to β†’ https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "feedUrls": [ "https://blog.apify.com", "https://hnrss.org/frontpage" ] }' | apify call plumbline-data/rss-feed-reader --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,plumbline-data/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 ` 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/dBsJtdTTS7pBdBrSb/builds/hvdfEnUlpnt8b49I2/openapi.json