RSS Feed Reader and News Monitor with Full Article Text

What does RSS Feed Reader and News Monitor do?

It reads RSS, Atom and JSON feeds and gives you every item as clean data: title, link, date, author, categories, summary, content, image and, for podcasts, the audio file and duration. You don't need to know the feed address: give it a website and it finds the feed for you.

On top of that, it can:

• Give you only what's new. Turn on Only new items and schedule it: every run returns just the items that appeared since the last one.
• Filter by keywords and date. Follow a topic, a company or a competitor across many news sites and blogs.
• Add the full article text as Markdown and plain text, when the feed only has a short summary. It uses the same engine as Firefox's Reader View, so menus, ads and footers are left out.

Which feeds does it read?

• RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0 (RDF), Atom and JSON Feed.
• Podcast feeds, with the audio file, its size, the episode length, episode and season numbers.
• Any website that has a feed. For a website address, it uses the feed the site announces in its HTML (almost every news site, blog, WordPress, Ghost, Substack and Medium site does), or tries the usual places like /feed, /rss and /atom.xml.
• Feeds of any size, with Norwegian, Swedish and other special characters handled correctly.

What data do you get?

Field	Example
Feed	feed URL, title, website and description
Item	title, link, id, published and updated date
Author and categories	"Andrew J. Hawkins", ["Electric Cars", "Tesla"]
Text	summary and the feed's content as plain text (HTML optional)
Image	the item's image, from the feed or the article
Podcasts	audio file URL, type and size, duration in seconds, episode and season
Full article (optional)	the article as Markdown and plain text, word count, byline and publish time

Email addresses are removed from author fields.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of this page.
2. Add feeds or website addresses under Feeds or websites, one per line.
3. Optional: filter by keywords or age, or limit the number of items per feed.
4. Optional: turn on Add the full article text.
5. Click Start, then download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or use the API.

To monitor feeds, turn on Only items that are new since the last run and create a schedule (for example every hour) from the Schedule button after the run. Connect it to Slack, email, Make, n8n or Zapier to get the new items where you want them.

Input examples

The newest 10 items from a few news sites:

{
    "feeds": ["https://www.nrk.no", "https://www.theverge.com", "https://blog.cloudflare.com"],
    "maxItemsPerFeed": 10
}

Monitor mentions of a company across news sites, with the full article text, only new items:

{
    "feeds": ["https://www.nrk.no", "https://www.e24.no", "https://www.vg.no", "https://www.tu.no"],
    "keywords": ["equinor*"],
    "onlyNew": true,
    "memoryName": "equinor-news",
    "fetchFullText": true
}

The last 30 days of a podcast:

{
    "feeds": ["https://feeds.simplecast.com/54nAGcIl"],
    "maxAgeDays": 30
}

Output example

A news item with the full article text, shortened:

{
    "feedUrl": "https://www.nrk.no/toppsaker.rss",
    "feedTitle": "NRK",
    "feedLink": "https://www.nrk.no/",
    "feedDescription": "Siste saker fra nrk.no",
    "title": "Over 400 hytteeiere vant i tingretten – kommunen anker dommen",
    "link": "https://www.nrk.no/innlandet/over-400-hytteeiere-vant-i-tingretten-_-kommunen-anker-dommen-1.18036706",
    "id": "1.18036706",
    "published": "2026-09-25T10:47:07.000Z",
    "updated": null,
    "author": "Henrik Einangshaug",
    "categories": [],
    "summary": "400 hytteeiere på Skei i Gausdal vant rettssaken mot kommunen. Nå anker kommunen saken til lagmannsretten.",
    "contentText": null,
    "image": "https://gfx.nrk.no/tm9Y0NKBbFfGaBif_FKtmQEwPD2JwL3onSnXPiZ1E8Cg.jpg",
    "enclosure": null,
    "podcast": null,
    "articleMarkdown": "[I en nylig dom slo Gudbrandsdal tingrett](https://www.nrk.no/innlandet/...) fast at Gausdal kommune brøt loven ...",
    "articleText": "I en nylig dom slo Gudbrandsdal tingrett fast at Gausdal kommune brøt loven ...",
    "articleWordCount": 347,
    "articleByline": "Henrik Einangshaug",
    "articlePublished": "2026-09-25T12:47:07+02:00",
    "articleError": null,
    "fetchedAt": "2026-09-25T11:29:49.414Z"
}

A podcast episode, shortened:

{
    "feedTitle": "The Daily",
    "title": "The Life and, for Now, the Death of the Kennedy Center",
    "published": "2026-09-25T09:45:00.000Z",
    "enclosure": { "url": "https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/...", "type": "audio/mpeg", "length": 29168282 },
    "podcast": { "durationSeconds": 1822, "episode": null, "season": null, "explicit": false }
}

The RUN_SUMMARY record in the key-value store shows how many feeds were read, how many items were in them, how many were filtered out, seen before and saved, and which feeds failed and why.

How much does it cost?

• $1 per 1,000 items saved.
• $2 per 1,000 full article texts, only when you turn on Add the full article text, and only for articles of 100 words or more. Shorter texts (often just the visible intro of a paywalled article) are delivered for free, and pages that block automated visitors or have no readable article are not charged.

Examples:

• 20 news feeds, 20 items each, once a day: 400 items, $0.40 a day.
• The same with Only new items every hour: you pay only for new items, typically a few hundred a day.
• 1,000 items with full text: $1 + $2 = $3.

Items that are filtered out or were seen before are not charged. The $5 in free monthly credit on the Apify free plan covers about 5,000 items a month. Set Max items per feed or a maximum cost per run for a hard budget.

FAQ

How do the keywords work?

They match whole words and phrases in the title, summary, content and categories, not case sensitive. AI finds "AI" and "AI-driven" but not "said". Add * at the end to match word beginnings: equinor* also finds "Equinors" and "Equinor-sjefen". Items that contain any of Skip items containing any of are left out.

How does "Only new items" work?

Each feed's item ids are remembered in a key-value store in your own Apify account, called rss-feed-reader-default (or with the Memory name you choose). The next run skips everything it has seen. Items that were filtered out or beyond Max items per feed count as seen too, so "new" really means "appeared since the last run". If a run stops at your maximum cost, the items it didn't get to stay new for the next run. To start over, use a new memory name or delete the key-value store.

Can I use the articles and feeds for anything I like?

That depends on the publisher. Feeds are meant for reading and following sites, but some publishers limit what you may do with their content, and a few say so in the feed description (included in every item as feedDescription). Check the terms of each site before you republish or resell its content. The Actor respects robots.txt, identifies itself honestly, doesn't log in and doesn't get around paywalls.

Why is the full article text missing for some items?

The articleError field says why: the site's robots.txt doesn't allow automated visitors (blocked_by_robots_txt), the site refused the request (http_403), the article is behind a login or paywall and the page has too little text (no_article_found), or the item links to a show page instead of an article, as podcast feeds often do (no_article_link). None of these are charged.

What about paywalled articles?

Only the part anyone can read without logging in is extracted, which for paywalled articles is usually the intro. The articleWordCount field shows how much text you got. Texts under 100 words are not charged.

What if a website has no feed?

The log tells you, and the site is listed in the run summary. Most news sites, blogs and shops with a blog have one, but some don't.

Does it work with YouTube or Reddit?

No. They publish feeds, but their robots.txt asks automated tools to stay away, and the Actor respects that. The same goes for any other site that says no in its robots.txt: the log tells you when that happens.

Can I use it from my own code?

Yes. Every Apify Actor has an API. See the API tab for examples in Python, JavaScript and plain HTTP. It also works with Make, n8n, Zapier, Slack and Google Sheets.

Something missing or not working?

Open an issue on the Issues tab with the feed or website you tried.

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