# RSS & Atom Feed Parser — News, Blogs, Podcasts (`gochujang/rss-feed-parser`) Actor

Parse any RSS or Atom feed into clean JSON. Supports news sites, blogs, podcasts, YouTube channels, Reddit, GitHub releases. Batch up to 100 feeds per run. $0.001/feed + $0.0005/item.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/gochujang/rss-feed-parser.md
- **Developed by:** [Hojun Lee](https://apify.com/gochujang) (community)
- **Categories:** News
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 feed item fetcheds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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.

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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 & Atom Feed Parser — News, Blogs, Podcasts, YouTube, Reddit

> Parse **any RSS or Atom feed** into clean structured JSON. News sites, blogs, podcasts, YouTube channel feeds, Reddit subreddits, GitHub releases, newsletters — all in one call. Batch up to 100 feeds per run. **$0.001/feed + $0.0005/item.**

### ⚡ Run in 30 seconds

Paste any RSS/Atom URL and click **Start**:

```
## News feed
https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml

## YouTube channel feed
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCVHkCitq2bBUCXIc4gV2A3A

## Reddit subreddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptocurrency/.rss

## GitHub releases
https://github.com/apify/apify-sdk-python/releases.atom

## Tech blog
https://techcrunch.com/feed/
```

No API keys needed. Runs in under 5 seconds for a single feed.

***

### What you get

One output row per feed, with all items nested:

```json
{
  "url": "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml",
  "ok": true,
  "feed_type": "rss",
  "title": "BBC News",
  "link": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news",
  "description": "BBC News — Home",
  "language": "en-gb",
  "last_build": "2026-08-08T09:00:00+00:00",
  "item_count": 20,
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-08T09:37:00+00:00",
  "items": [
    {
      "title": "Markets rally as Fed holds rates",
      "link": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/...",
      "guid": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/...",
      "author": "BBC Business",
      "published": "2026-08-08T08:00:00+00:00",
      "summary": "Global markets surged after the Federal Reserve signalled a pause...",
      "categories": ["Business", "Economy"],
      "media_url": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/...",
      "content_html": null
    }
  ]
}
```

Enable `includeContent: true` to get the full article HTML in `content_html`.

***

### Use cases

1. **News aggregation** — Monitor 50+ news sources in a single run for market/sector intelligence
2. **AI content pipelines** — Feed fresh articles into Claude, GPT, or RAG search directly
3. **Newsletter monitoring** — Track competitor newsletters and blog updates
4. **Podcast indexing** — Parse podcast RSS feeds to get episode lists, descriptions, MP3 URLs
5. **GitHub release tracking** — Monitor dependencies for new releases via Atom feeds
6. **Reddit research** — Pull top posts from subreddits without the Reddit API (no auth)
7. **Content calendars** — Check publication frequency and recent topics for any blog
8. **Price/alert feeds** — Some financial data providers publish rate feeds as RSS
9. **YouTube channel indexing** — Get video titles, descriptions, and publish dates for any channel

***

### Supported formats

| Format | Examples |
|--------|---------|
| RSS 2.0 | News sites, blogs, WordPress, Substack |
| Atom 1.0 | GitHub, YouTube, Google Alerts, Blogger |
| RSS 1.0 | Older sites, RDF feeds |

Handles `dc:creator`, `content:encoded`, `media:thumbnail`, and other common extensions automatically.

***

### Feed URL patterns

| Platform | URL pattern |
|---------|------------|
| YouTube channel | `https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<ID>` |
| Reddit subreddit | `https://www.reddit.com/r/<sub>/.rss` |
| GitHub releases | `https://github.com/<user>/<repo>/releases.atom` |
| GitHub tags | `https://github.com/<user>/<repo>/tags.atom` |
| Google Alerts | Alerts export URL from alerts.google.com |
| Substack | `https://<publication>.substack.com/feed` |
| Medium | `https://medium.com/feed/<publication>` |
| WordPress | `https://<site>/feed/` |

***

### Input options

| Field | Default | Description |
|-------|---------|-------------|
| `feedUrls` | — | List of RSS/Atom feed URLs (up to 100) |
| `feedUrl` | — | Single feed URL shortcut |
| `maxItemsPerFeed` | `50` | Max items per feed (up to 500) |
| `includeContent` | `false` | Include full article HTML in `content_html` |
| `limit` | `20` | Max feeds per run (up to 100) |

***

### Pricing

- **$0.001** per feed (start + fetch)
- **$0.0005** per item returned

| Example | Feeds | Items | Cost |
|---------|-------|-------|------|
| 1 news site (20 items) | 1 | 20 | $0.011 |
| 10 blogs (50 items each) | 10 | 500 | $0.26 |
| 50 feeds news aggregator | 50 | 1000 | $0.55 |
| Daily monitoring, 100 feeds | 100 | 2000 | $1.10 |

***

### Related actors

- **[PDF Text Extractor](https://apify.com/gochujang/pdf-text-extractor)** — Extract text from linked PDFs in feed items
- **[Web Page → Markdown](https://apify.com/gochujang/web-to-markdown)** — Convert full article pages to clean text
- **[Article Summarizer](https://apify.com/gochujang/article-summarizer)** — AI summaries of feed article content
- **[HTML Metadata Extractor](https://apify.com/gochujang/html-metadata-extractor)** — Enrich feed items with OG tags, images

**Keywords:** RSS feed parser, Atom feed scraper, podcast feed extractor, news aggregator, content monitoring, blog scraper, YouTube feed, Reddit RSS, GitHub releases feed

# Actor input Schema

## `feedUrls` (type: `array`):

List of RSS or Atom feed URLs to parse. Supports news sites, blogs, YouTube channels (?rss=1), Reddit /.rss, GitHub releases/atom.

## `feedUrl` (type: `string`):

Single RSS/Atom feed URL. Used when feedUrls is empty.

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

Maximum number of items to return per feed (up to 500).

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

Include full article HTML (content:encoded for RSS, content for Atom). Can significantly increase output size.

## `limit` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of feeds to process per run (max 100).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "feedUrls": [],
  "feedUrl": "",
  "maxItemsPerFeed": 50,
  "includeContent": false,
  "limit": 20
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("gochujang/rss-feed-parser").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("gochujang/rss-feed-parser").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 '{}' |
apify call gochujang/rss-feed-parser --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/y9slP1g0wCx7CJgT6/builds/N3uY8kJJOo04BlR52/openapi.json