# Feed Reader - RSS/Atom Feed Parser

> Feed Reader - RSS/Atom Feed Parser is a paid API for AI agents from feed-reader.bowling-anthony.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Parses any RSS, RSS/RDF, or Atom feed URL into a normalized shape with title, link, ISO date, author, summary, and categories, with optional polling support via a `since` parameter.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://feed-reader.bowling-anthony.workers.dev/feed
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/feed-reader-rss-atom-feed-parser-89f317d3
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ZZWtV2EC7_t1KrEsxt5Pi

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 feed-reader-rss-atom-feed-parser-89f317d3
```

Example prompt: Can you fetch and parse the RSS feed at https://news.ycombinator.com/rss and give me the latest article titles, links, and publication dates in a normalized format?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to fetch and normalize a known RSS, RDF, or Atom feed URL into a consistent schema, especially when you want to unify feeds of different formats (RSS 2.0, RSS/RDF, Atom) into one shape. It is ideal for monitoring or polling scenarios via the `since` parameter. Prefer this over a general web scraper when the target site exposes a proper feed URL, as the output is already structured and normalized.

## Known failure modes

- Feed URL is unreachable or returns a non-200 status — endpoint may return an error or empty result
- URL does not point to a valid RSS, RDF, or Atom feed — parse failure
- Feed is behind authentication or a paywall — content inaccessible
- Malformed XML in feed source — partial or failed parse
- Rate limiting from the source feed server — fetch failure

## How this service works

Any RSS, RSS/RDF or Atom feed parsed into one shape: title, link, ISO date, author, summary and categories. Pass since to poll for changes.

## Output

A normalized list of feed entries, each containing: title, link (URL), ISO 8601 publication date, author name, summary/description text, and categories/tags — regardless of whether the source was RSS 1.0/2.0, RDF, or Atom format.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "title": "Hacker News",
  "format": "rss",
  "itemsReturned": 20
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/feed-reader-rss-atom-feed-parser-89f317d3/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from feed-reader.bowling-anthony.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/feed-reader.bowling-anthony.workers.dev/llms.txt)