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RSS Feed Finder & Reader - any site to articles

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RSS Feed Finder & Reader - any site to articles

RSS Feed Finder & Reader - any site to articles

Input: any website URL. Output: recent articles with title, link, summary, author, publish date and categories. The RSS or Atom feed is located automatically, so no feed URL is needed. Use when you need recent posts from a site without crawling it.

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RSS Feed Finder & Reader

Give it any website. It finds the RSS or Atom feed itself and returns recent articles in one clean schema.

You do not need to know the feed URL. Point it at theverge.com and it works out the rest — the same way a feed reader does.

Why not just crawl the site?

CrawlingThis actor
Speedslow, many page loadsone request per site
Costhighone row per article
Anti-botconstant fightnone — feeds are meant to be read
Breaks on redesignyesno
Structured outputmust be inferredalready structured

If a site publishes a feed, reading it beats crawling it on every axis.

What you get

FieldDescription
titleArticle headline
urlDirect link
summaryDescription or content, HTML stripped, up to 1,200 chars
authorAuthor where the feed provides one
publishedAtISO 8601 publish time
categoriesTags declared in the feed
source / sourceDomainPublication name and domain
feedUrlThe feed that was discovered
guidFeed-provided unique ID
scrapedAtCollection time

Input

{
"sites": ["theverge.com", "arstechnica.com", "https://news.ycombinator.com/rss"],
"keywords": ["ai", "security"],
"publishedAfter": "2026-08-01",
"maxPerSite": 50
}
OptionDefaultWhat it does
sitesrequiredWebsite URLs or direct feed URLs — both work
keywordsemptyKeep only articles matching one of these in title or summary
publishedAfteremptyKeep only articles from this date onward (YYYY-MM-DD)
maxPerSite50Cap per site

How discovery works

  1. Fetch the URL. If it is already a feed, use it.
  2. Look for <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"> in the HTML — the standard declaration nearly every CMS emits.
  3. Fall back to conventional paths: /feed, /rss, /rss.xml, /feed.xml, /atom.xml, /index.xml, and a few others.

Both RSS 2.0 and Atom are parsed into the same output shape, so you never handle two formats.

Who this is for

  • Media monitoring — track many publications from one run
  • Competitive intelligence — watch competitors' blogs and changelogs
  • Newsletter curation — filter by keyword and date, publish the result
  • Research datasets — build a corpus of articles across many sources
  • Alerting — schedule it and diff against the previous run

Honest limits

  • A feed only carries recent items — typically the last 10 to 50. This is a recent articles tool, not an archive exporter.
  • Sites that publish no feed return no feed found. That is a real answer, not a failure, and it costs you nothing.
  • summary is whatever the publisher puts in the feed. Some give full text, some two lines.
  • author is frequently absent; many feeds simply omit it.

Pricing

Pay per event. Charged per article returned. A site with no feed costs nothing.

Changelog

1.0 — First release. Auto-discovery, RSS 2.0 and Atom, keyword and date filters.