RSS & Atom Feed to JSON Reader (Bulk, Auto-Discovery)

RSS & Atom Feed to JSON reads any RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0 (RDF), Atom or JSON Feed and returns clean, consistent JSON items: title, link, published date (ISO 8601), author, plain-text summary, categories, image and GUID. Give it a website URL instead of a feed and it auto-discovers the feed from the page's <link rel="alternate"> tag.

Process many feeds in one run, keep only items newer than a date, and cap items per feed. HTML tags and entities are removed from summaries. No browser, and only $0.30 per 1,000 items.

What can you use it for?

Convert RSS to JSON

One consistent schema for RSS, Atom and JSON Feed, so your code doesn't care which format a site uses.

News and blog monitoring

Schedule a run over dozens of news sites or competitor blogs and get new posts with sinceDate.

Find a website's RSS feed

Pass a homepage like https://blog.apify.com and the Actor finds and reads its feed.

Feed content into AI, Slack or Google Sheets

Pipe new items to an LLM summarizer, a Slack channel, Airtable or a spreadsheet with Apify integrations.

Podcast and YouTube feeds

Read enclosure / media thumbnail images and links from podcast RSS and YouTube Atom feeds.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free (or Start).
2. Enter your input (see the example below) and click Save & Start.
3. Download results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them via the API.

Input

• feeds — Feed URLs, or website URLs to auto-discover their feed.
• maxItemsPerFeed — Max items per feed (default 50; 0 = all).
• sinceDate — Optional ISO date; older items are skipped.
• concurrency — Parallel feeds (default 10).

Example input:

{
  "feeds": [
    "https://hnrss.org/frontpage",
    "https://blog.apify.com"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerFeed": 20,
  "sinceDate": "2026-10-01"
}

Output example

feedTitle	title	published	author	link
Apify Blog	How to do question answering from a PDF with Python and RAG	2026-10-14T08:16:08.000Z	Satyam Tripathi	https://blog.apify.com/how-to-do-question-answering-from-a-pdf/
Apify Blog	Model collapse: why AI models degrade and how to prevent it	2026-10-14T08:16:08.000Z	Satyam Tripathi	https://blog.apify.com/improve-ai-models-web-scraping-data-augmentation/

All output fields: feedTitle, title, link, published, author, summary, categories, image, guid, feedUrl. A feed that can't be read returns one row with feedUrl and error (not charged).

How much does it cost?

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. You pay only for results, not for servers or subscriptions:

• $0.0003 per feed item, which is $0.30 per 1,000 feed items
• plus Apify's standard Actor start event of $0.00005 per run (per GB of memory; the default 512 MB memory = one event)

You process	You pay (approx.)
1,000 feed items	$0.30
10,000 feed items	$3.00
100,000 feed items	$30.00

Apify's free plan includes monthly platform credit, which is enough to try this Actor at no cost.

Run it via API, schedule or AI agents

Run from your own code with the Apify API, JavaScript or Python client, schedule it in Apify Console, connect it to Make, Zapier, n8n or Google Sheets, or let an AI agent call it through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com).

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/quillbit-tools~rss-feed-to-json/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"feeds": ["https://hnrss.org/frontpage", "https://blog.apify.com"], "maxItemsPerFeed": 20, "sinceDate": "2026-10-01"}'

FAQ

Which formats are supported? RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0/RDF, Atom 1.0 and JSON Feed 1.x.

What if I give a website instead of a feed? The Actor reads the page, finds the <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"> (or Atom/JSON) tag and follows it. If none exists you get No feed found on page and are not charged.

How do I get only new items? Set sinceDate (e.g. the date of your last run). Items without a date are kept.

What am I charged for? One feed-item event per item output. 50 items from one feed cost $0.015.

Does it fetch the full article text? No, it returns what the feed contains (title, summary/content as plain text up to 2,000 characters). To get full article Markdown, pass the link values to the Webpage to Markdown Actor.

Related tools by Quillbit Tools

• Bulk URL Status & Redirect Chain Checker
• Broken Link Checker – crawl a site for 404s
• Sitemap URL Extractor
• Domain Expiry, DNS & SSL Certificate Checker
• Website Tech Stack Detector
• Webpage to Markdown for LLMs & RAG

Questions or a feature request? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab.