RSS Feed Scraper — RSS & Atom to JSON

Turn one or hundreds of public RSS and Atom feeds into clean, structured dataset items. Use it for news monitoring, content aggregation, podcast and YouTube feed ingestion, research, alerts, or an AI/RAG pipeline—without proxies, cookies, or an API key.

What you get

• Parse multiple RSS or Atom feed URLs in one run.
• Extract titles, links, authors, publication dates, categories, summaries, full content when supplied by the feed, and media/enclosure metadata.
• Control volume independently for every feed, from 1 to 500 items.
• Continue processing other feeds if an individual feed is temporarily unavailable or malformed.
• Export results as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or HTML through Apify datasets.
• Run manually, on a schedule, by API, or from Make, Zapier, n8n, webhooks, and other Apify integrations.

Quick start

{
  "feedUrls": [
    "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml",
    "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerFeed": 50,
  "includeContent": true
}

Click Try for free, paste your feed URLs, choose the maximum items per feed, and start the Actor. Results appear in the run's default dataset and can be downloaded immediately.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
feedUrls	string[]	Yes	—	Public RSS or Atom feed URLs to parse.
maxItemsPerFeed	integer	No	50	Maximum items extracted from each feed. Allowed range: 1–500.
includeContent	boolean	No	true	Include full article content when the feed provides it.

Output

The Actor writes feed metadata and normalized feed entries to the default Apify dataset. Available fields depend on what each publisher includes in its feed and can include:

• feed and item titles
• canonical links
• author or creator
• publication date
• description or content snippet
• full encoded content
• categories
• enclosures and media metadata

Because publishers expose different RSS extensions, fields that are absent in the source feed may be empty.

Common use cases

News and competitor monitoring

Collect recent posts from company blogs, publications, press rooms, or industry sources on a schedule and send new items to Slack, email, a database, or a spreadsheet.

AI and RAG ingestion

Convert feeds into predictable JSON before embedding, summarizing, classifying, or routing content through an agent workflow.

Podcast and YouTube monitoring

Ingest podcast RSS feeds and public YouTube channel feeds, including available dates, links, descriptions, and enclosure/media data.

Content aggregation

Combine multiple public feeds in one run and export the output to JSON, CSV, or Excel for a dashboard, newsletter, or research pipeline.

API example

Start the Actor with the Apify API using the input above. Open the API tab on this Store page to get a ready-to-run request for JavaScript, Python, cURL, or the Apify CLI.

Pricing

This Actor costs $2.00 per 1,000 dataset items. You pay for results, not a subscription. Use maxItemsPerFeed to control output volume and run cost.

Limits and responsible use

• The feed URL must be publicly reachable by Apify.
• The Actor does not sign in to private feeds or bypass access controls.
• Output completeness depends on the fields supplied by the publisher.
• Respect publisher terms, copyright, privacy, and applicable laws when storing or republishing feed content.

Support

If a valid public feed fails or a field is parsed incorrectly, open an issue with the feed URL, expected behavior, and a sample of the missing data. Do not include credentials or private feed tokens.