RSS Feed Scraper

Turn any RSS or Atom feeds into clean structured data. Paste feed URLs - or just website URLs, and the actor finds the feed for you - and get one row per item with title, link, date, author, plain-text summary, categories and image. No API key, no login, no browser.

What you get

One row per feed item:

• title, link, published date (ISO), author
• a plain-text summary with HTML stripped and entities decoded
• categories/tags and the item image (enclosure or media tag)
• feed title and URL, plus the input URL it came from
• optionally the full HTML content when the feed carries it

Feed autodiscovery

You do not need to know a site's feed URL. Give it https://techcrunch.com and the actor reads the page's feed link tag (falling back to common paths like /feed and /atom.xml) and scrapes what it finds. RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0 and Atom all work, including the malformed feeds real sites publish.

{
    "feedUrls": [
        "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml",
        "https://techcrunch.com"
    ],
    "maxPerFeed": 50
}

Monitor mode

Turn on newOnly, put the actor on a schedule, and each run emits only items it has not returned before. That turns any list of sites into a new-post alert feed - competitor blogs, industry news, product changelogs, security advisories - ready to pipe into Sheets, Slack or anything else. Runs where nothing new arrived cost nothing.

Who uses this

• Marketing and PR teams: watch competitor blogs and industry news in one place, structured.
• Founders and analysts: aggregate niche sources into one dataset instead of an unread feed reader.
• Developers: a feed-to-JSON bridge for dashboards and automations - no parsing, no cron server.
• Researchers and journalists: collect articles across many outlets with consistent fields.

Pairs with our Google News Scraper for keyword-driven discovery and our Website Change Monitor for pages that have no feed at all.

Pricing

A small fee per item row. Dead URLs, sites with no discoverable feed, and runs where nothing new arrived are free note rows, and the first 2 rows of every run are free.

Notes

• Feeds are fetched directly with plain HTTP - your sources see a normal feed-reader request.
• Items are returned in feed order (feeds put newest first). Use sinceDays to drop old items on first runs.
• Very large feeds are truncated at the last complete item; per-feed and total row caps keep runs bounded.