RSS Feed Finder & Reader - any site to articles
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from $2.00 / 1,000 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?
| Crawling | This actor | |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | slow, many page loads | one request per site |
| Cost | high | one row per article |
| Anti-bot | constant fight | none — feeds are meant to be read |
| Breaks on redesign | yes | no |
| Structured output | must be inferred | already structured |
If a site publishes a feed, reading it beats crawling it on every axis.
What you get
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
title | Article headline |
url | Direct link |
summary | Description or content, HTML stripped, up to 1,200 chars |
author | Author where the feed provides one |
publishedAt | ISO 8601 publish time |
categories | Tags declared in the feed |
source / sourceDomain | Publication name and domain |
feedUrl | The feed that was discovered |
guid | Feed-provided unique ID |
scrapedAt | Collection time |
Input
{"sites": ["theverge.com", "arstechnica.com", "https://news.ycombinator.com/rss"],"keywords": ["ai", "security"],"publishedAfter": "2026-08-01","maxPerSite": 50}
| Option | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
sites | required | Website URLs or direct feed URLs — both work |
keywords | empty | Keep only articles matching one of these in title or summary |
publishedAfter | empty | Keep only articles from this date onward (YYYY-MM-DD) |
maxPerSite | 50 | Cap per site |
How discovery works
- Fetch the URL. If it is already a feed, use it.
- Look for
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">in the HTML — the standard declaration nearly every CMS emits. - 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. summaryis whatever the publisher puts in the feed. Some give full text, some two lines.authoris 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.