RSS & Atom Feed Parser to JSON

hipersoft/rss-feed-parser

Parse any RSS or Atom feed into clean structured data: item title, link, summary, author, publish date, categories and feed title. Read many feeds at once. Great for news monitoring, content aggregation and automation. One row per item as JSON, CSV or Excel.

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Total users

Monthly users

Total runs

Per item parsed

$0.0002

Last rebuilt

Oct 26, 2026

Overview

Turn any RSS or Atom feed into clean, structured data with the RSS & Atom Feed Parser. Pass a list of feed URLs and export every item's title, link, summary, author, publish date and categories — one clean row per item as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Built for news monitoring, content aggregation, newsletters, competitive intelligence and automation pipelines (n8n, Make, Zapier), it reads messy XML feeds and hands you tidy JSON with no code.

What it does

📰 Any feed format — RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0 / RDF and Atom, auto-detected.
🔗 Clean item fields — title, link, summary, author, publish date, categories and GUID.
📚 Many feeds at once — read a whole list of feeds in a single run.
🎛️ Caps — limit items per feed and total items.
🧹 Tidy output — HTML stripped from summaries; consistent fields across feed types.
📤 Export anywhere — JSON, CSV or Excel, or straight into a database, sheet or workflow.

Example output

{
  "feedTitle": "Hacker News: Front Page",
  "feedType": "rss",
  "title": "A tiny family of decision models",
  "link": "https://github.com/example/project",
  "author": null,
  "published": "Mon, 21 Sep 2026 07:11:55 +0000",
  "categories": []
}

How to use it

Add one or more feed URLs.
Optionally set max items per feed and a total cap.
Run, and download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Input fields

Field	Description
Feed URLs	RSS or Atom feed URLs to parse.
Max items per feed	Cap items from each feed (0 = all).
Max items (total)	Maximum total items across all feeds (0 = no limit).

Output fields

feedUrl, feedTitle, feedType, title, link, summary, author, published, categories, guid.

Popular use cases

News monitoring — track headlines from many outlets in one dataset.
Content aggregation — build a combined feed for a site or newsletter.
Competitive intelligence — watch competitor blogs and press feeds.
Automation — a feed-reading step inside an n8n, Make or Zapier workflow.
Research & archiving — collect and store feed items over time.

FAQ

Do I need an account or key? No. Add feed URLs and run.

Which feed formats are supported? RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0 / RDF and Atom — the format is detected automatically.

Can I read many feeds in one run? Yes — add a list of feed URLs and each is parsed independently, tagged with its feed title.

Can I export to Excel or Google Sheets? Yes — results download as JSON, CSV or Excel and integrate with Sheets, databases and automation tools.

Parse RSS & Atom feeds into clean JSON — title, link, author, date and categories — ready for monitoring, aggregation and automation.

Input

Field	Type	Description
`feedUrls` Feed URLs	array	RSS or Atom feed URLs to parse — e.g. 'https://hnrss.org/frontpage', 'http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml'. Each is read independently.
`maxItemsPerFeed` Max items per feed	integer	Cap items taken from each feed (0 = all items in the feed). Default: `0`
`maxItems` Max items (total)	integer	Maximum total items across all feeds (0 = no limit). Default: `0`

API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/hipersoft~rss-feed-parser/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "feedUrls": [
    "https://hnrss.org/frontpage"
  ]
}'

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("hipersoft/rss-feed-parser").call(run_input={
    "feedUrls": [
        "https://hnrss.org/frontpage"
    ]
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('hipersoft/rss-feed-parser').call({
  "feedUrls": [
    "https://hnrss.org/frontpage"
  ]
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Pricing

Event	Price	Paid plans from
Item parsed Charged for each feed item returned.	$0.0002	$0.0001

You pay only for what the run returns. Set a maximum cost per run and it stops cleanly at that limit.

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