# RSS Feed Scraper - RSS, Atom & JSON Feed Reader to JSON/CSV (`tinyrex/rss-feed-scraper`) Actor

RSS feed scraper: any RSS, Atom or JSON Feed (or website URL, auto-discovered) to JSON/CSV: title, link, date, author, full text, images, enclosures. Keyword filters, dedupe and monitoring. $0.30 per 1,000 items; failed feeds, filtered and already-seen items are free.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/tinyrex/rss-feed-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [TinyRex](https://apify.com/tinyrex) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Automation, Developer tools
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.24 / 1,000 feed items

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

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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 Scraper: turn any RSS, Atom or JSON feed into JSON or CSV

**Read any RSS, Atom or JSON Feed — or just a website URL — into clean JSON, CSV or Excel in seconds.** You get title, link, publication date, author, categories, summary, full article text (when the feed has it), images and podcast/video enclosures. Feeds are auto-discovered from blog and news URLs. **$0.30 per 1,000 items; failed feeds, filtered-out items, duplicates and already-seen items are free.**

### What you get from the RSS Feed Scraper

- **Every common feed format, one schema**: RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0/RDF, Atom 1.0 and JSON Feed 1.x, normalized to the same fields so you can mix blogs, newsrooms, GitHub releases, podcasts and YouTube channel feeds in one run.
- **Auto-discovery and bulk speed**: paste a domain like `techcrunch.com` or a blog URL; the Actor finds `<link rel="alternate">` or common paths (`/feed`, `/rss.xml`, `/atom.xml`). About 100 feeds in ~25 seconds at 256 MB, with a per-feed success/error report.
- **Filters and monitoring built in**: keywords, exclude keywords, published within N days, max items per feed, cross-feed dedupe, and *Only new items* so scheduled runs return only unseen posts (already-seen items stay free).

### Sample output (JSON)

```json
{
  "feedUrl": "https://techcrunch.com/feed/",
  "feedTitle": "TechCrunch",
  "feedType": "rss",
  "title": "OpenAI launches a new model for developers",
  "link": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/08/openai-launches-a-new-model/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-08T08:29:14.000Z",
  "author": "Jane Doe",
  "categories": ["AI", "Startups"],
  "summary": "The company said ...",
  "contentText": "Full article text ...",
  "image": "https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/image.jpg",
  "enclosures": []
}
```

Download as **JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML**, or send it to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, webhooks or the Apify API. Each run also writes a `FEEDS` report (resolved URL, title, items fetched/saved, errors) and a `SUMMARY` record to the key-value store.

### How to configure the RSS Feed Scraper

1. Add **feeds or websites** (one per line): a feed URL (`https://www.nasa.gov/feed/`), a blog (`blog.cloudflare.com`), a GitHub Atom feed, a podcast RSS URL or a YouTube channel feed.
2. Optional filters: keywords, exclude keywords, published within N days, max items per feed.
3. Run, or schedule it with *Only new items* on for a news/content alert feed.

#### Example input: three feeds, AI keywords, last 2 days

```json
{
  "feeds": ["https://www.nasa.gov/feed/", "blog.cloudflare.com", "https://github.com/apify/crawlee/releases.atom"],
  "keywords": ["ai", "openai", "nvidia"],
  "publishedWithinDays": 2,
  "maxItemsPerFeed": 50,
  "includeContent": true
}
```

| Setting | Default | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| feeds | HN RSS | Feed URLs or website URLs (auto-discovery) |
| maxItemsPerFeed | 50 | `0` = everything in the feed |
| publishedWithinDays | 0 (any) | Only recently published items |
| keywords / excludeKeywords | none | Case-insensitive; match title, summary, categories or full content |
| matchIn | titleAndSummary | `title`, `titleAndSummary` or `everywhere` |
| includeContent / includeHtml | true / false | Full text and optional HTML when the feed publishes it |
| discoverAllFeeds | false | Read every feed a site lists, not only the first |
| dedupeAcrossFeeds | true | Skip same ID/link seen in another feed this run (free) |
| onlyNewItems / stateKey | off / default | Monitoring; use one state key per feed list |
| maxConcurrency | 5 | Feeds in parallel |
| proxyConfiguration | no proxy | Only if a feed blocks datacenter IPs |

### Common use cases

- **News and brand monitoring**: hourly runs over dozens of news feeds with keywords, sent to Slack or a Google Sheet.
- **Content aggregation**: build a niche newsletter or site feed from many blogs, deduplicated.
- **AI and RAG pipelines**: full-text items from trusted sources as clean JSON for LLM summarization and embeddings.
- **Podcast and YouTube tracking**: new episodes and videos via their official RSS feeds, with enclosure URLs.

### Pricing (pay per item, failures free)

- **Item** (`item`): **$0.0003 per feed item** saved to your dataset ($0.30 per 1,000; full text included when the feed has it), $0.00027 on Silver and $0.00024 on Gold.
- **Free:** feeds that fail or are not found, items removed by your filters, duplicates and already-seen items in monitoring mode.

Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor stops gracefully when it is reached. See the *Pricing* tab for current tier discounts.

### Limitations

- The Actor returns what the feed publishes. Many feeds contain only the latest 10–50 items and a short summary; it does not open article pages to extract body text.
- Some sites block datacenter IPs or require a login for their feeds; these show up as errors in `FEEDS` and are free. A proxy can help for blocked feeds.
- Email addresses in author fields are removed.

### Use with AI agents (MCP)

This Actor works as a tool for AI agents through the **Apify MCP server** at `https://mcp.apify.com`. Connect Claude, Cursor, VS Code, n8n or any other MCP client to `https://mcp.apify.com?tools=tinyrex/rss-feed-scraper` and ask, for example: *"Read these 20 company blogs and give me this week's posts about AI with links"*. Results come back as structured JSON at the same pay-per-item price; failed feeds and filtered items stay free.

📘 **Step-by-step guide with Python, JavaScript, curl and MCP examples:** [How to turn any RSS or Atom feed into JSON or CSV](https://emirmrkaljevic.github.io/tinyrex-data-tools/rss-feed-to-json-csv-api/)

### FAQ

**How do I convert an RSS feed to JSON or CSV?** Paste the feed URL (or the website URL) into *Feeds or websites*, run the Actor, then download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel. Failed feeds are free.

**Can the RSS Feed Scraper discover feeds from a website URL?** Yes. Give a domain or blog URL; it looks for `<link rel="alternate">` and common paths like `/feed` and `/rss.xml`. Turn on *Read all feeds of a website* if the site lists several feeds.

**How do I monitor an RSS feed for new posts only?** Enable *Only new items*, set a *State key*, and schedule the Actor (e.g. every hour). The first run is the baseline; later runs return only unseen items, and already-seen items are free.

**Does it support Atom and JSON Feed as well as RSS?** Yes. RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0/RDF, Atom 1.0 and JSON Feed 1.x are all normalized to one schema.

**Is it legal to scrape RSS feeds?** RSS, Atom and JSON feeds are published for syndication and automated reading. The Actor only reads the feeds you give it (and the page needed to discover them), does not log in and does not bypass paywalls. You are responsible for each publisher's terms and copyright before republishing or commercial use.

**How fast is the RSS Feed Scraper?** About 100 feeds in 25 seconds with the default settings at 256 MB.

### Related actors

- [Sitemap Scraper](https://apify.com/tinyrex/sitemap-scraper): Every URL from a website's XML sitemaps, with lastmod and an optional broken-link check.
- [Tech Stack Detector](https://apify.com/tinyrex/tech-stack-detector): Find which CMS, analytics and email provider the sites behind your feeds use.
- [Remote Jobs Scraper](https://apify.com/tinyrex/remote-jobs-scraper): Remote jobs from Himalayas, Remote OK, We Work Remotely and more.
- [SEO On-Page Audit](https://apify.com/tinyrex/seo-on-page-audit): Title, meta, H1, canonical and schema checks for pages you found via feeds or sitemaps.

# Actor input Schema

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

RSS, Atom or JSON Feed URLs, or plain website / blog URLs (the feed is discovered automatically from the page or common paths like /feed and /rss.xml). Up to thousands per run.

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

Maximum items saved per feed (newest first, as the feed lists them). 0 = everything in the feed.

## `publishedWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

Only items published in the last N days. 0 = any date.

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

Keep only items that contain at least one of these words or phrases (case-insensitive). Leave empty to keep all.

## `excludeKeywords` (type: `array`):

Drop items that contain any of these words or phrases.

## `matchIn` (type: `string`):

Where keywords are searched.

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

Include the full article text when the feed publishes it (content:encoded / Atom content).

## `includeHtml` (type: `boolean`):

Also include the original content HTML.

## `discoverAllFeeds` (type: `boolean`):

When a website URL lists several feeds (e.g. posts and categories), read all of them instead of only the first one.

## `dedupeAcrossFeeds` (type: `boolean`):

Skip items already returned from another feed in the same run (same ID or link). Duplicates are free.

## `onlyNewItems` (type: `boolean`):

Return only items not returned by previous runs with the same State key. Schedule the Actor to build a news or content alert feed. Already-seen items are free.

## `stateKey` (type: `string`):

Name of the monitoring state. Use different keys for different feed lists.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many feeds are read at the same time.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Usually not needed. Use a proxy only if a feed blocks datacenter IPs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "feeds": [
    "https://www.nasa.gov/feed/",
    "https://blog.cloudflare.com/rss/",
    "https://github.com/apify/crawlee/releases.atom"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerFeed": 50,
  "publishedWithinDays": 0,
  "keywords": [],
  "excludeKeywords": [],
  "matchIn": "titleAndSummary",
  "includeContent": true,
  "includeHtml": false,
  "discoverAllFeeds": false,
  "dedupeAcrossFeeds": true,
  "onlyNewItems": false,
  "stateKey": "default",
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `items` (type: `string`):

Normalized items from all feeds.

## `feeds` (type: `string`):

For every input: resolved feed URL, title, items fetched and saved, errors.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Totals for the run.

# 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://www.nasa.gov/feed/",
        "https://blog.cloudflare.com/rss/",
        "https://github.com/apify/crawlee/releases.atom"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("tinyrex/rss-feed-scraper").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://www.nasa.gov/feed/",
        "https://blog.cloudflare.com/rss/",
        "https://github.com/apify/crawlee/releases.atom",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("tinyrex/rss-feed-scraper").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://www.nasa.gov/feed/",
    "https://blog.cloudflare.com/rss/",
    "https://github.com/apify/crawlee/releases.atom"
  ]
}' |
apify call tinyrex/rss-feed-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/fVjDhMhAX6QHHONSp/builds/BEW70lJ7PPdD4VOSY/openapi.json