# RSS Feed Reader & Scraper: Bulk RSS, Atom to JSON / CSV (`tomstudio/rss-feed-reader`) Actor

RSS feed reader and parser: read many RSS, Atom and JSON feeds at once and export items (title, link, date, author, summary, content, media) to JSON, CSV or Excel. Auto-discovers feeds from website URLs, keyword filter, only-new mode.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/tomstudio/rss-feed-reader.md
- **Developed by:** [Tom Studio](https://apify.com/tomstudio) (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

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-usage

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
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 Reader & Scraper - Bulk RSS and Atom to JSON, CSV, Excel

Read **hundreds of RSS, Atom and JSON feeds in one run** and get clean, uniform items: **title, link, published date (UTC), author, summary, full content, categories, media/enclosure URL**. Paste a normal **website URL** and the Actor **auto-discovers its feed**.

No login, no proxy, no browser - fast and very cheap.

### Use cases

- **News & content monitoring**: follow blogs, newsrooms, competitors, regulators. Combine `onlyNew: true` with an Apify schedule to get only fresh items and push them to Slack, email, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or n8n.
- **Keyword alerts**: keep only items that mention your brand or topic (`keywords`).
- **AI pipelines & RAG**: feed clean text (`includeContent: true`) to your LLM.
- **Podcast & YouTube feeds**: media URLs are included (`mediaUrl`).

### Input example

```json
{
  "feeds": ["https://blog.apify.com/rss/", "https://www.theverge.com", "https://xkcd.com/atom.xml"],
  "maxItemsPerFeed": 50,
  "lastDays": 7,
  "keywords": ["ai", "scraping"],
  "onlyNew": true,
  "includeContent": false
}
```

### Output sample

```json
{
  "feedUrl": "https://blog.apify.com/rss/",
  "feedTitle": "Apify Blog",
  "title": "Get more people to use your Actor with task examples",
  "link": "https://blog.apify.com/actor-task-examples/",
  "published": "2026-10-22T08:00:00+00:00",
  "author": "Fabian Maume",
  "summary": "Publishing task examples doubled my Actor's organic traffic...",
  "categories": ["Apify Store"],
  "mediaUrl": null
}
```

### Notes

- Items keep the feed's own data; content rights belong to the publishers - use it according to each site's terms.
- Sites without any feed are reported in the log ("no feed found"). A few sites block cloud IPs (e.g. HTTP 403/419); they are skipped and logged.

Questions or feature requests? Open an issue on the Actor page.

### Who is this for?

Content and PR teams, newsletter and media-monitoring builders, researchers, and developers who feed news into AI/RAG pipelines or automations (Make, Zapier, n8n).

### FAQ

**What if a site has no RSS URL?** Paste the website URL; the Actor looks for its feed automatically.
**How do I get only new articles?** `onlyNew: true` and a schedule.
**Can I filter by topic?** Yes, with `keywords` (matched on title and summary).
**Which formats?** RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0 (RDF), Atom and JSON Feed.
**Can it get the full article text?** It returns the feed's `content` when the feed includes it; it does not crawl article pages.

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- [Hacker News Search & Comments](https://apify.com/tomstudio/hacker-news-search)
- [Wayback Machine Snapshots](https://apify.com/tomstudio/wayback-machine-snapshots)
- [RSS & Atom Feed Reader](https://apify.com/tomstudio/rss-feed-reader)
- [YouTube Transcript Scraper](https://apify.com/tomstudio/youtube-transcript-scraper)

# Actor input Schema

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

RSS/Atom/JSON Feed URLs, or website URLs (the feed is auto-discovered from the page).

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

Newest items first.

## `lastDays` (type: `integer`):

Optional date filter (items without a date are kept).

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

Optional: keep only items whose title or summary contains any of these words (case-insensitive).

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Remembers seen items in a named key-value store - schedule it for alerts to Slack, email or webhooks.

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

Add the full item content (when the feed provides it), HTML removed.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "feeds": [
    "https://blog.apify.com/rss/",
    "https://www.theverge.com"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerFeed": 50,
  "keywords": [],
  "onlyNew": false,
  "includeContent": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All results (overview table view).

# 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://blog.apify.com/rss/",
        "https://www.theverge.com"
    ],
    "keywords": []
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("tomstudio/rss-feed-reader").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://blog.apify.com/rss/",
        "https://www.theverge.com",
    ],
    "keywords": [],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("tomstudio/rss-feed-reader").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://blog.apify.com/rss/",
    "https://www.theverge.com"
  ],
  "keywords": []
}' |
apify call tomstudio/rss-feed-reader --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/CHN6Wa9xIoFUKEX6M/builds/7uhoE0scy6VDxSOfr/openapi.json