# apiacre.com Feed Normalize

> apiacre.com Feed Normalize is a paid API for AI agents from apiacre.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Normalizes RSS and Atom feeds into a consistent, stable JSON format regardless of feed dialect.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://apiacre.com/v1/research/feed-normalize
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/apiacre-com-feed-normalize-c359d4f0
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_nNiF50CsgnRIx9LddMFsr

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability apiacre-com-feed-normalize-c359d4f0 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Normalize this RSS feed from TechCrunch into stable JSON for me — here's the feed URL: https://techcrunch.com/feed/

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to consume RSS or Atom feeds in a consistent JSON schema without writing your own feed parser. It is ideal for content aggregation pipelines, news monitoring tools, or any workflow that ingests feeds from multiple sources with different dialects. Prefer it over generic HTML scrapers when the target site provides a proper feed, and over custom parsing when you need stable, predictable field names across feed types.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or malformed feed URL returns an error indicating the feed could not be fetched
- Feed URL returns non-XML content or a non-feed page, causing a parse error
- Feed uses a highly non-standard or proprietary extension that cannot be normalized
- Network timeout or unreachable feed host results in a fetch error
- Feed requires authentication and returns a 401/403, causing a retrieval failure

## How this service works

Fetch and normalize public RSS or Atom feeds into stable structured JSON entries for agents and research workflows.

## Output

A stable JSON representation of the feed containing normalized fields such as feed title, description, link, language, and an array of items — each with title, link, publication date, author, summary/content, and any available media metadata — regardless of whether the source was RSS or Atom.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "url": {
   "type": "string",
   "title": "Url",
   "format": "uri",
   "maxLength": 2083,
   "minLength": 1
  },
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "title": "Limit",
   "default": 20,
   "maximum": 100,
   "minimum": 1
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": {
   "url": "https://hnrss.org/frontpage",
   "title": "Hacker News: Front Page",
   "entries": [
    {
     "id": "https://example.com/posts/engineering-launch",
     "url": "https://example.com/posts/engineering-launch",
     "title": "Example engineering launch",
     "summary": "A bounded example entry normalized from a public RSS item.",
     "published": "Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:00:00 +0000",
     "publishedAt": "2026-08-11T04:00:00+00:00"
    },
    {
     "id": "https://example.com/posts/api-update",
     "url": "https://example.com/posts/api-update",
     "title": "Example API update",
     "summary": "A second demonstration item with the same stable output fields.",
     "published": "Tue, 11 Aug 2026 03:00:00 +0000",
     "publishedAt": "2026-08-11T03:00:00+00:00"
    }
   ],
   "entryCount": 2
  },
  "meta": {
   "cached": false,
   "sources": [],
   "warnings": [],
   "duration_ms": 42,
   "next_actions": []
  },
  "service": "research.feed-normalize",
  "version": "1",
  "request_id": "018f1f54-7f38-7ba2-8dc3-5f90272d9f1a"
 }
}
```

## More

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