# RSS Feed Scraper - RSS, Atom & JSON Feed Reader to JSON/CSV (`tinyrex/rss-feed-scraper`) Actor

Any RSS, Atom or JSON Feed (or a website, feeds auto-discovered) to clean JSON/CSV: title, link, date, author, summary, full text, images, enclosures. Keyword filters, dedupe, monitoring.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/tinyrex/rss-feed-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [TinyRex](https://apify.com/tinyrex) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Automation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.24 / 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?

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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?

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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 Feed Scraper: RSS, Atom & JSON Feed reader to JSON / CSV

Turn **any RSS, Atom or JSON Feed into clean, structured data**: title, link, publication date, author, categories, summary, **full article text** (when the feed has it), image and podcast/video enclosures. Paste feed URLs **or just website URLs**: the feed is discovered automatically. Read hundreds of feeds in one run, filter by keywords and date, remove duplicates across feeds, and schedule it as a news or content monitor. You pay only for the items you get.

**Why this one:** **$0.30 per 1,000 items**, while other RSS actors on the Store charge $1–8 per 1,000 items or $0.035 per run plus per-item fees. It is a plain, fast HTTP reader (no browser), handles RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0 (RDF), Atom and JSON Feed, and **feeds that fail, filtered-out items, duplicates and already-seen items are free**.

### Why this scraper

- **Every feed format.** RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0/RDF, Atom 1.0 and JSON Feed 1.x, all normalized to one schema.
- **Feed auto-discovery.** Give `techcrunch.com` or a blog URL; the Actor finds the feed via `<link rel="alternate">` or common paths (`/feed`, `/rss.xml`, `/atom.xml`, `/index.xml`...). Optionally read *all* feeds a site lists.
- **Full content and media.** `content:encoded` / Atom content as plain text (and optionally HTML), image from media tags or the content, enclosures with URL, type and size (podcast episodes, videos).
- **Filters.** Keywords (any), exclude keywords, published within N days, max items per feed.
- **Dedupe + monitoring.** Duplicates across feeds are skipped; with *Only new items* each scheduled run returns only items you have not seen yet.
- **Bulk and fast.** 100 feeds in about 25 seconds at 256 MB, with a per-feed report of what worked and what failed.

### What you get

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| feedUrl, feedTitle, feedLink, feedType, language | https://techcrunch.com/feed/, TechCrunch, https://techcrunch.com/, rss, en-US |
| itemId, title, link | GUID, OpenAI launches ..., https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/08/... |
| publishedAt, updatedAt | 2026-10-08T08:29:14.000Z |
| author, categories | Jane Doe, \[AI, Startups] |
| summary, contentText, contentHtml | plain-text summary, full text, optional HTML |
| image, enclosures | image URL, \[{url: .../episode.mp3, type: audio/mpeg, length: 123}] |

### How to use

1. Add **feeds or websites** (one per line), e.g. `https://www.nasa.gov/feed/`, `blog.cloudflare.com`, `https://github.com/apify/crawlee/releases.atom`, a YouTube channel feed or a podcast RSS feed.
2. Optional: **keywords**, **exclude keywords**, **published within N days**, **max items per feed**.
3. Run, then download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or use the API, webhooks or integrations (Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack).
4. For monitoring, turn on **Only new items** and add a schedule (e.g. every hour).

#### Example input

```json
{
  "feeds": ["https://www.nasa.gov/feed/", "blog.cloudflare.com", "https://github.com/apify/crawlee/releases.atom"],
  "keywords": ["ai", "openai", "nvidia"],
  "publishedWithinDays": 2,
  "maxItemsPerFeed": 50,
  "includeContent": true
}
```

#### Example output (shortened)

```json
{
  "feedUrl": "https://techcrunch.com/feed/",
  "feedTitle": "TechCrunch",
  "feedType": "rss",
  "title": "OpenAI launches a new model for developers",
  "link": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/08/openai-launches-a-new-model/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-08T08:29:14.000Z",
  "author": "Jane Doe",
  "categories": ["AI", "Startups"],
  "summary": "The company said ...",
  "contentText": "Full article text ...",
  "image": "https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/image.jpg",
  "enclosures": []
}
```

### Common use cases

- **News and brand monitoring**: hourly runs over 50 news feeds with keywords, sent to Slack or a Google Sheet.
- **Content aggregation**: build a niche newsletter or website feed from many blogs, deduplicated.
- **AI and RAG pipelines**: full-text items from trusted sources as clean JSON for LLM summarization and embeddings.
- **Podcast and YouTube tracking**: new episodes and videos via their official RSS feeds, with enclosure URLs.

### Run report

- **`FEEDS`**: for every input: the resolved feed URL, its title, items fetched and saved, and any error (404, blocked, not a feed).
- **`SUMMARY`**: totals for the run (feeds read and failed, items fetched, filtered, duplicates, already seen, saved).

### Pricing

Pay per event:

- **Item** (`item`): one charge per feed item saved to your dataset (full text included).
- **Free:** feeds that fail or are not found, items removed by your filters, duplicates and already-seen items in monitoring mode.

See the *Pricing* tab for the current price. Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor stops gracefully when it is reached.

### Limitations

- The Actor returns what the feed publishes. Many feeds contain only the latest 10–50 items and a short summary; it does not open article pages to extract text (use a content extractor for that).
- Some sites block datacenter IPs or require a login for their feeds; these show up as errors in `FEEDS` (and are free). A proxy can help for blocked feeds.
- Email addresses in author fields are removed.

### Use with AI agents (MCP)

This Actor works as a tool for AI agents through the **Apify MCP server** at `https://mcp.apify.com`. Connect Claude, Cursor, VS Code, n8n or any other MCP client to `https://mcp.apify.com?tools=tinyrex/rss-feed-scraper` and the agent can run it from a plain-language request, for example: *"Read these 20 company blogs and give me this week's posts about AI with links"*. Results come back as clean, structured JSON at the same pay-per-result price, and filtered or duplicate items stay free.

📘 **Step-by-step guide with Python, JavaScript, curl and MCP examples:** [How to turn any RSS or Atom feed into JSON or CSV (bulk, with monitoring)](https://emirmrkaljevic.github.io/tinyrex-data-tools/rss-feed-to-json-csv-api/)

### Related actors

- [Tech Stack Detector](https://apify.com/tinyrex/tech-stack-detector): Find which CMS, analytics and email provider the sites behind your feeds use.
- [Remote Jobs Scraper](https://apify.com/tinyrex/remote-jobs-scraper): Remote jobs from Himalayas, Remote OK, We Work Remotely and more.
- [Sitemap Scraper](https://apify.com/tinyrex/sitemap-scraper): Every URL from a website's XML sitemaps, with lastmod and an optional broken link check.
- [TED Tenders Scraper](https://apify.com/tinyrex/ted-tenders-scraper): Daily EU public tender alerts from the official TED API.

### FAQ

**Is it legal?** RSS, Atom and JSON feeds are published by sites specifically for syndication and automated reading. The Actor only reads the feeds you give it (and the page needed to discover them), does not log in and does not bypass paywalls. You are responsible for respecting each publisher's terms and copyright: some feeds (e.g. many news outlets) allow only personal, non-commercial use, so check before republishing or using content commercially.

**Can it read Google News or social media feeds?** It reads any standard feed URL you provide, but some services restrict commercial use of their feeds; check their terms first.

**How fast is it?** About 100 feeds in 25 seconds with the default settings.

# Actor input Schema

## `feeds` (type: `array`):

RSS, Atom or JSON Feed URLs, or plain website / blog URLs (the feed is discovered automatically from the page or common paths like /feed and /rss.xml). Up to thousands per run.

## `maxItemsPerFeed` (type: `integer`):

Maximum items saved per feed (newest first, as the feed lists them). 0 = everything in the feed.

## `publishedWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

Only items published in the last N days. 0 = any date.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Keep only items that contain at least one of these words or phrases (case-insensitive). Leave empty to keep all.

## `excludeKeywords` (type: `array`):

Drop items that contain any of these words or phrases.

## `matchIn` (type: `string`):

Where keywords are searched.

## `includeContent` (type: `boolean`):

Include the full article text when the feed publishes it (content:encoded / Atom content).

## `includeHtml` (type: `boolean`):

Also include the original content HTML.

## `discoverAllFeeds` (type: `boolean`):

When a website URL lists several feeds (e.g. posts and categories), read all of them instead of only the first one.

## `dedupeAcrossFeeds` (type: `boolean`):

Skip items already returned from another feed in the same run (same ID or link). Duplicates are free.

## `onlyNewItems` (type: `boolean`):

Return only items not returned by previous runs with the same State key. Schedule the Actor to build a news or content alert feed. Already-seen items are free.

## `stateKey` (type: `string`):

Name of the monitoring state. Use different keys for different feed lists.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many feeds are read at the same time.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Usually not needed. Use a proxy only if a feed blocks datacenter IPs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "feeds": [
    "https://www.nasa.gov/feed/",
    "https://blog.cloudflare.com/rss/",
    "https://github.com/apify/crawlee/releases.atom"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerFeed": 50,
  "publishedWithinDays": 0,
  "keywords": [],
  "excludeKeywords": [],
  "matchIn": "titleAndSummary",
  "includeContent": true,
  "includeHtml": false,
  "discoverAllFeeds": false,
  "dedupeAcrossFeeds": true,
  "onlyNewItems": false,
  "stateKey": "default",
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `items` (type: `string`):

Normalized items from all feeds.

## `feeds` (type: `string`):

For every input: resolved feed URL, title, items fetched and saved, errors.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Totals for the run.

# 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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "feeds": [
        "https://www.nasa.gov/feed/",
        "https://blog.cloudflare.com/rss/",
        "https://github.com/apify/crawlee/releases.atom"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("tinyrex/rss-feed-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 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);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → 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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "feeds": [
        "https://www.nasa.gov/feed/",
        "https://blog.cloudflare.com/rss/",
        "https://github.com/apify/crawlee/releases.atom",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("tinyrex/rss-feed-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 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)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "feeds": [
    "https://www.nasa.gov/feed/",
    "https://blog.cloudflare.com/rss/",
    "https://github.com/apify/crawlee/releases.atom"
  ]
}' |
apify call tinyrex/rss-feed-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,tinyrex/rss-feed-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

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 <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` 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/fVjDhMhAX6QHHONSp/builds/mvyT3yby1GVulrPNU/openapi.json