RSS Feed Reader & New Items Monitor

RSS feed reader that turns RSS, Atom and JSON feeds into clean rows. Paste a feed or a plain website: the Actor finds the feed, saves only items that are new since your last run, and can add the full article text.

• Price: $3.00 per 1,000 feed items on the Free plan, $2.10 on Gold. Platform usage is included.
• Input: feed addresses, websites, OPML lists, subreddits, Medium profiles, GitHub repositories.
• Output: title, link, date, summary, full article text, categories, image, podcast file and length.
• Measured: 15 items from 3 feeds, with full text, in 7 seconds. The next run found nothing new, took 2 seconds and charged only the $0.00005 start fee.

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How to use it

1. Paste your feeds or websites into Feeds or websites, one per line.
2. Keep Only new items on to use the Actor as a monitor. Turn on Full article text if a teaser is not enough.
3. Click Start. The first run saves the latest items of each feed.
4. Schedule the Actor, hourly or daily. Every later run saves and charges only items it has not seen.

{
    "urls": ["https://blog.apify.com/", "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml", "krebsonsecurity.com"],
    "includeFullText": true,
    "maxItemsPerFeed": 5
}

You paste	The Actor reads
A feed address	RSS 0.9x, 1.0 or 2.0, Atom, or JSON Feed
A website	The feed the page names, then links that look like a feed, then usual paths such as /feed
The address of an OPML file	Every feed in the list
A subreddit, a Medium profile	Its feed
A GitHub repository	Its release notes

What data you get

Every item has the same fields. A value the feed does not give is null.

Field	What it holds
recordType	item, or notice for the free row that explains an empty run
title, url, summary	Title, link, and plain text up to 1,000 characters
publishedAt, updatedAt	Dates in UTC
contentText, contentHtml	The body the feed carries, as plain text and as published
fullText, fullTextWords	The whole article with its paragraphs, and the word count
fullTextSource, fullTextError	feed or page, or why there is no full text
categories, imageUrl	Tags and the main image
isNew	true if the item appeared after the monitor's first read, false if it was already there, null with Only new items off
author	Empty unless you turn on Include author names, because names are personal data. Email addresses are never saved
enclosureUrl, enclosureType, enclosureBytes	Audio or video file
durationSeconds, episode, season, transcriptUrl	Podcast details
commentsUrl, itemId	Comments page and the id the feed uses
feedTitle, feedUrl, feedType, feedLanguage, siteUrl	The feed that was read
sourceUrl, retrievedAt	The address from your input and the time of the read

A real item, without the long text fields:

{
    "recordType": "item",
    "title": "Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today",
    "url": "https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/widespread-php-flaw-may-cause-many-site-outages-today/",
    "publishedAt": "2026-10-21T15:26:07.000Z",
    "imageUrl": "https://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/shutterstock-codeonscreenphp.png",
    "isNew": false,
    "feedTitle": "Krebs on Security",
    "feedUrl": "https://krebsonsecurity.com/feed/",
    "feedType": "rss",
    "sourceUrl": "https://krebsonsecurity.com/",
    "fullTextWords": 674,
    "fullTextSource": "feed"
}

Each run also writes a Feed report: for each address the feed found, a status such as ok, unchanged, refused or no_feed_found, the reason, and the item counts.

How much does it cost?

Plan	Per 1,000 feed items
Free	$3.00
Bronze	$2.70
Silver	$2.40
Gold	$2.10

You pay only for items saved to the dataset. Items seen before, items you filter out, failed feeds and notices cost nothing. Each run also has a start fee of $0.00005. Full text costs no extra, and there is no separate charge for platform usage.

Example: 10 feeds that publish 20 new items a day make about 600 items a month, which cost $1.80 on the Free plan plus the start fees. To cap a run, set Items per run, or set a maximum cost in the run options.

How to monitor RSS feeds for new items

1. Save your list as an Apify task, or give it a Monitor name. Each task and each name has its own memory, so two lists that share a feed do not take items from each other.
2. Set Items per feed. The first run saves that many newest items of each feed and treats the rest as old, so you do not pay for the backlog. These rows have isNew: false.
3. Schedule it. Later rows have isNew: true.

An item is new when neither its id nor its link has been seen, so a feed that changes the id of a story but keeps its link does not create a duplicate. The same article in two of your feeds is saved and charged once. An edited article is not new.

No item is lost at a limit. If Items per feed, Items per run or your spending limit stops a run, the items it did not reach come with the next run, if the feed still holds them. In a test with a $0.05 limit, the first run saved 18 of 130 items and the next run saved the other 112.

The memory is a key-value store in your Apify account, named rss-feed-reader-<monitor name>. A task with no name uses rss-feed-reader-task-<task id>, and direct runs use rss-feed-reader-default. Delete it, or use a new name, to start over.

How to get the full article text

Turn on Full article text. If the feed holds the whole article, the Actor uses it and reads no page. If the feed holds a teaser, the Actor reads the page once and takes the article out of it. fullTextSource says which one happened. fullText keeps the paragraphs, so you can pass it to a summary, a search index or an AI pipeline.

In a test with 16 feeds, 229 of 254 items got full text in 163 seconds: 90 from the feed and 139 from the page. The other 25 were 20 Reddit items closed by robots.txt, 4 podcast episodes with no page, and 1 page with no article text. Such items are still saved with what the feed gave, and fullTextError says why.

How to track podcasts

Podcast feeds work like any other feed. A 20 MB podcast feed took 3 seconds in a test.

{
    "title": "10pm ET, November 05 | The latest headlines from NPR",
    "publishedAt": "2026-11-06T03:09:51.000Z",
    "feedTitle": "NPR News Now",
    "enclosureType": "audio/mpeg",
    "enclosureBytes": 4586728,
    "durationSeconds": 280
}

How to read a list of feeds

Export your subscriptions as OPML, put the file online and paste its address. A public list of 28 feeds gave 46 items, 2 from each of 23 feeds, in 6 seconds. The other 5 were YouTube feeds, which do not work at the moment.

How to filter by keyword and date

This input keeps items from the last 7 days that mention a data breach or ransomware. Filtered items are not charged.

{
    "urls": ["https://krebsonsecurity.com/feed/", "https://techcrunch.com/"],
    "onlyNewItems": false,
    "includeKeywords": ["data breach", "ransomware"],
    "publishedAfter": "7 days"
}

Only whole words match, so AI does not match email. The Actor looks in the title, summary, feed content and categories, not in text it reads from pages.

Limits

• A feed is not an archive. You get only what the feed holds at that moment. In a test with 19 feeds, most held 10 to 50 items.
• No bypass. The Actor uses one open User-Agent, no proxy and no login. If a site refuses, the feed gets the status refused. The Guardian's feed answered HTTP 403 in our tests.
• Pages. robots.txt is obeyed, a paywall stays a paywall, and a page that builds its text with JavaScript gives no full text.
• YouTube. Channel feeds answered HTTP 404 in our tests, so YouTube does not work at the moment.
• Feeds only. A site with no feed gets the status no_feed_found.
• One run per monitor at a time. Two runs that overlap can save the same items twice.

API and integrations

Run the Actor from the Apify API, on a schedule, or from Make, Zapier and n8n, and read the items from the run's dataset. A notice row is not an item: skip it, or turn off Save a notice when nothing is saved. AI agents can call the Actor through the Apify MCP server.

FAQ

Why did the second run save nothing? Nothing new was published. The run adds one free notice row and charges only the start fee.

How do I read a whole feed again? Turn off Only new items, or use a new Monitor name.

Why is one feed missing from the results? Open the Feed report in the run output. A feed that cannot be read does not stop the run and costs nothing.

Can I republish the full text? Articles belong to their publishers. Check the terms of each site before you store or republish its text.

How many feeds can one run read? Up to 5,000 addresses, OPML lists included. More memory reads more feeds at the same time.

This Actor is an independent tool with no connection to any feed publisher, Reddit, Medium, GitHub or YouTube. All trademarks belong to their owners.