# RSS & Atom Feed to JSON Scraper (`andok/rss-parser`) Actor Monitor blogs, news sites, and podcasts. Convert any RSS or Atom feed into structured JSON data for instant content syndication. - **URL**: https://apify.com/andok/rss-parser.md - **Developed by:** [Andok](https://apify.com/andok) (community) - **Categories:** Business, Developer tools - **Stats:** 30 total users, 9 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $1.00 / 1,000 item parseds 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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. 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. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## RSS & Atom Feed Parser Parse any RSS or Atom feed into structured JSON and plug it straight into your monitoring pipeline. Tracking competitor blogs, industry news, or podcast releases becomes a scheduled job that outputs clean, normalized data — no XML wrangling required. Feed it dozens of URLs at once and get back every item with title, link, date, author, and content snippet. ### Features - **Multi-feed processing** — parse dozens of RSS and Atom feeds in a single run - **Format-agnostic** — handles RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0, and Atom feeds automatically - **Normalized output** — consistent JSON structure regardless of feed format differences - **Content snippets** — extracts plain-text previews from HTML content fields - **Category extraction** — preserves article categories and tags from feed metadata - **Configurable limits** — control how many items to extract per feed - **Timeout protection** — per-feed timeout prevents slow feeds from blocking the entire run ### Input | Field | Type | Required | Default | Description | |-------|------|----------|---------|-------------| | `urls` | `array` | Yes | — | List of RSS or Atom feed URLs to parse (e.g. `https://news.ycombinator.com/rss`) | | `maxItems` | `integer` | No | `100` | Maximum number of items to extract per feed (1-500) | | `timeoutSeconds` | `integer` | No | `15` | Per-feed fetch timeout in seconds (1-120) | #### Input Example ```json { "urls": [ "https://news.ycombinator.com/rss", "https://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index" ], "maxItems": 50, "timeoutSeconds": 15 } ```` ### Output Each dataset item represents one feed item (article, post, or episode). Key fields: - `feedUrl` (`string`) — the source feed URL - `feedTitle` (`string`) — title of the parent feed - `itemTitle` (`string`) — title of the individual item - `itemLink` (`string`) — URL to the full content - `pubDate` (`string`) — publication date - `creator` (`string`) — author or creator name - `contentSnippet` (`string`) — plain-text preview of the content - `guid` (`string`) — unique identifier for the item - `categories` (`array`) — list of tags or categories #### Output Example ```json { "feedUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/rss", "feedTitle": "Hacker News", "itemTitle": "Show HN: Open-source tool for managing database migrations", "itemLink": "https://github.com/example/db-migrate", "pubDate": "Mon, 20 Jan 2025 18:45:00 +0000", "creator": null, "contentSnippet": "A lightweight CLI for managing SQL migrations across Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite.", "guid": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38901234", "categories": [] } ``` ### Pricing | Event | Cost | |-------|------| | Item Parsed | Pay-per-event (see actor pricing page) | ### Use Cases - **Content monitoring** — schedule daily runs to track blog posts, news articles, or podcast episodes - **Competitive intelligence** — follow competitor RSS feeds for product announcements and blog updates - **Data pipeline ingestion** — normalize feed data into JSON for downstream processing, databases, or dashboards - **Newsletter automation** — aggregate content from multiple sources into a curated feed - **AI agent context** — supply structured article data to LLM pipelines and RAG applications - **Slack/webhook alerts** — combine with Apify integrations to push new items to Slack or email ### Related Actors | Actor | What it adds | |-------|-------------| | [Google News Scraper](https://apify.com/andok/google-news-scraper) | Search Google News by keyword instead of parsing known feed URLs | | [Hacker News Scraper](https://apify.com/andok/hackernews-scraper) | Get richer Hacker News data (scores, comments) via the Firebase API | | [Markdown Extractor](https://apify.com/andok/markdown-extractor) | Convert the linked articles into clean Markdown for LLM ingestion | # Actor input Schema ## `urls` (type: `array`): List of RSS or Atom feed URLs to parse. Supports RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0, and Atom formats (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/rss). ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of items (articles, posts, or episodes) to extract from each feed. ## `timeoutSeconds` (type: `integer`): Per-feed fetch timeout in seconds. Increase for slow or large feeds. ## Actor input object example ```json { "urls": [ "https://news.ycombinator.com/rss" ], "maxItems": 100, "timeoutSeconds": 15 } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `results` (type: `string`): No description ## `resultsCsv` (type: `string`): No description ## `run` (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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "urls": [ "https://news.ycombinator.com/rss" ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("andok/rss-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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "urls": ["https://news.ycombinator.com/rss"] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("andok/rss-parser").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "urls": [ "https://news.ycombinator.com/rss" ] }' | apify call andok/rss-parser --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=andok/rss-parser", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "RSS & Atom Feed to JSON Scraper", "description": "Monitor blogs, news sites, and podcasts. Convert any RSS or Atom feed into structured JSON data for instant content syndication.", "version": "1.0", "x-build-id": "XSqhr94ZIp8D2MUUx" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/andok~rss-parser/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-andok-rss-parser", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/andok~rss-parser/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-andok-rss-parser", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/andok~rss-parser/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-andok-rss-parser", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "urls": { "title": "Feed URLs", "minItems": 1, "type": "array", "description": "List of RSS or Atom feed URLs to parse. Supports RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0, and Atom formats (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/rss).", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "maxItems": { "title": "Max Items per Feed", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 500, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of items (articles, posts, or episodes) to extract from each feed.", "default": 100 }, "timeoutSeconds": { "title": "Timeout (seconds)", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 120, "type": "integer", "description": "Per-feed fetch timeout in seconds. Increase for slow or large feeds.", "default": 15 } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```