RSS Feed Scraper - RSS, Atom & RDF to Rows

Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the owners of any website, service or document it processes. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Any site or brand names are referenced only to describe the content this Actor processes.

Turn any RSS, Atom or RDF feed into clean, structured rows: title, link, author, publish date, categories, summary, full content and media enclosure. Paste a few feeds or import a file of hundreds. No API key, no browser, no proxy - it fetches the feed URL directly.

What you get per item

Field	Meaning
feedUrl / feedTitle	The source feed and its title
title / link / guid	Item title, article link and unique id
author / published	Author and publish/updated date
categories	Item category/tag list
summary / content	Short description and full content (when the feed provides it)
enclosure	Media URL (podcasts / media feeds)

Input

{ "feedUrls": ["https://hnrss.org/frontpage", "https://techcrunch.com/feed/"], "maxItemsPerFeed": 50 }

• Feed URLs - one per line (RSS, Atom or RDF).
• Import from a file - paste a list, or link a public .txt/.csv, a Google Sheet/Drive link, or an Apify key-value-store record (also accepts the requestsFromUrl shape).
• Output fields - trim every record to exactly the columns you need.

Leave everything empty and the run returns a small free sample so you can see the shape first.

Reliability

Parses RSS 2.0, Atom and RDF with automatic handling of CDATA, HTML and entities. A feed that 404s, is not a valid feed, or an import that cannot be read bills $0 and says why. Items are deduplicated by link across all feeds, so the same article shared by two feeds is saved once.

Honest limits

• content is provided only by feeds that publish full text (content:encoded / Atom content); most give a summary only.
• enclosure appears on podcast/media feeds; text and news feeds have none.
• categories are optional in the RSS/Atom spec - many feeds carry none.

Pricing

$0.001 per item on the FREE tier (tiered pricing lowers it with volume). Only items actually saved are billed; unreachable feeds and unreadable imports cost nothing.

Output views

• Items - title, link, author, published, feed and summary.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

Available through the Apify MCP server - an agent can watch a set of feeds, pull the latest posts, or turn any list of feeds into a clean dataset in one call.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is agent-ready - AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

• x402 - an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server - no account, no API key.
• Skyfire - agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.

Automate & schedule

Run this Actor on autopilot and pull results into your own stack:

• Apify API - start runs, fetch datasets and manage schedules over REST.
• apify-client for JavaScript and apify-client for Python - official SDKs.
• Schedules - run it hourly, daily or weekly and keep your dataset current.
• Webhooks - trigger downstream actions (CRM import, Slack alert, email sequence) the moment a run finishes.

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'MY_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('scrapesage/rss-feed-scraper').call({
    "feedUrls": [
        "https://hnrss.org/frontpage"
    ],
    "maxItemsPerFeed": 20
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Got ${items.length} records`);

Integrate with any app

Connect the dataset to thousands of apps - no code required:

• Make - multi-step automation scenarios.
• Zapier - push new records straight into your CRM or spreadsheet.
• Slack - get notified when a scheduled run finds something new.
• Google Drive / Sheets - auto-export every run to a spreadsheet.
• Airbyte - pipe results into your data warehouse.
• GitHub - trigger runs from commits or releases.

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• Google News Scraper - Articles, Sources & Monitoring
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• Google Trends Scraper - Interest, Regions & Trends
• Substack Scraper - Newsletters, Posts & Creator Leads
• IMDb Scraper - Movies, TV Shows, Ratings, Cast & Box Office

FAQ

How is this Actor billed? Pay-per-event: you pay only for the results it delivers, with no monthly rental and no start fee. The per-event price is shown on the Pricing tab.

Can I schedule it and get results automatically? Yes - create a Schedule and add a webhook or an integration (Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier) to push each run's dataset wherever you need it.

Which export formats are available? Every run's dataset can be downloaded as JSON, CSV, Excel (XLSX), XML, HTML or RSS from the Apify Console or the API.

Can I run it from code or an AI agent? Yes - through the Apify API and client libraries, or from Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants via the Apify MCP server.

Is it legal to use this Actor? This Actor collects publicly available data only. You are responsible for using the output in compliance with applicable laws (including data-protection law where personal data is involved) and the source's terms. See the Disclaimer below.

Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the owners of any website, service or document it processes. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

Any website, service or brand names that appear in this listing or in the output are referenced only in a descriptive, nominative sense. This Actor is not an official product of any of them and is not authorised or certified by them. It processes only content you point it at; you are responsible for ensuring you may lawfully access and use that content and that your use complies with applicable laws and the terms of each source.

Need help?

Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab, or visit the Apify help center. Feature requests are welcome - this Actor is actively maintained.