RSS Feed Reader: Monitor Any Feed at Scale, $0.50 per 1,000 Feeds

Parse RSS 2.0, Atom 1.0, and JSON Feed sources from any feed URL. Returns each item with title, author, link, published date, content, summary, categories, enclosures, and inline images. Filter by date range or by category. Built for monitoring: schedule it hourly to feed a news aggregator, alerting pipeline, or content database. Ideal for news monitoring, podcast indexing, blog tracking, and brand-mention alerts.

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Pricing

$0.0005/feed

RAM

128MB

Coverage

RSS, Atom, JSON Feed

Output fields

15+

Proxy

Apify datacenter

Tech

HTTP + XML/JSON parser

What you get

Per-item: title, link, author, published_at, updated_at, content_html, summary
Taxonomy: categories[], tags[], language
Media: enclosures[] (podcasts, attachments), inline_images[], featured_image
Feed metadata: feed_title, feed_description, feed_link, feed_updated_at, total_items
Filtering: max_age_days, since_date, category_filter, keyword_filter

Primary use cases

News monitoring. Aggregate hundreds of industry sources into a single feed-mention pipeline
Podcast indexing. Pull every episode from a podcast catalog with metadata and audio URLs
Blog tracking. Diff a competitor's feed daily to detect new posts and topics
Brand-mention alerts. Filter feeds by keyword and trigger Slack or webhook notifications
Content database hydration. Backfill an editorial database from publisher RSS archives

API example

# Start a run via the Apify API
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/santamaria-automations~rss-feed-reader/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "feedUrls": [
      "https://techcrunch.com/feed/",
      "https://feeds.feedburner.com/feedburner/Techcrunch",
      "https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml",
      "https://hnrss.org/frontpage",
      "https://example-podcast.com/rss"
    ],
    "maxAgeDays": 7,
    "extractFullContent": true
  }'

# Or use with AI agents via MCP:
# https://mcp.apify.com?tools=santamaria-automations/rss-feed-reader

Integrations

n8n, Make, Zapier: trigger runs and process records via webhook
AI Agents (MCP): Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, LangChain, LlamaIndex
Python, Node.js: Apify SDK for programmatic access
Google Sheets, Airtable: bulk input in, structured data out

Output fields

Field	Type	Example
feed_url	string	https://techcrunch.com/feed/
feed_title	string	TechCrunch
total_items	integer	42
item_title	string	Acme raises $50M Series B
author	string	Reporter Name
published_at	string	2026-06-13T08:42:00Z
link	string	https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/13/acme-series-b/
content_html	string	Acme, the leading...
categories	array	["startups","funding"]
featured_image	string	https://techcrunch.com/images/acme.jpg

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