# RSS and Atom Feed Reader – Latest N Items

> RSS and Atom Feed Reader – Latest N Items is a paid API for AI agents from feed-reader.x402tookit.com, paid per call via x402, $0.03/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-11-02).

Fetches an RSS or Atom feed URL and returns its most recent N items including title, link, ISO date, author, plain-text summary, and enclosure metadata.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://feed-reader.x402tookit.com/feed-items?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.03/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-11-02
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/rss-and-atom-feed-reader-latest-n-items-b5de4bc2
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_mjwozmMyhiruAKCxMexRF

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 rss-and-atom-feed-reader-latest-n-items-b5de4bc2
```

Example prompt: Fetch the latest 5 items from https://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index and give me each article's title, link, date, and author.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need the raw latest-N items from a known RSS or Atom feed URL with full item metadata (title, link, date, author, summary, enclosure). Prefer it over the filtered or date-range sibling endpoints when you want all recent items unconditionally. Choose the podcast-specific sibling if you need duration, season, and episode numbers. Choose the feed-metadata sibling if you only need feed-level stats without items.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unreachable feed URL returns an error status with reasons array
- Non-feed URL (HTML page, PDF, etc.) returns a parse failure or bad content-type error
- Feed with malformed XML may return partial results or a degraded flag
- Limit out of range (< 1 or > 50) rejected with validation error
- Feed requiring authentication or behind a paywall returns an access/fetch error
- Redirect loops or too many redirects may result in a fetch failure

## How this service works

Fetch an RSS or Atom feed and return its latest N items: title, link, ISO date, author, plain-text summary, enclosure.

## Output

Returns a structured list of up to 50 feed items (newest first), each containing: title, link, published date (ISO 8601), author, plain-text summary, enclosure details, and categories. Also includes feed-level metadata: feed title, feed link, format (RSS/Atom/RDF), format version, item count, final URL after redirects, bytes read, and a truncation flag if the limit was hit.

## 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",
     "required": [
      "url"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "url": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Full https URL of the RSS, Atom or RDF feed, no credentials, default port"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "description": "Items to return, 1 to 50 (default 10), newest first"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "asOf": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "items": {
       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
       ],
       "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
         "id": {
          "type": [
           "null",
           "string"
          ]
         },
         "link": {
          "type": [
           "null",
           "string"
          ]
         },
         "title": {
          "type": [
           "null",
           "string"
          ]
         },
         "author": {
          "type": [
           "null",
           "string"
          ]
         },
         "summary": {
          "type": [
           "null",
           "string"
          ]
         },
         "updated": {},
         "enclosure": {},
         "published": {
          "type": [
           "null",
           "string"
          ]
         },
         "categories": {
          "type": [
           "array",
           "null"
          ]
         }
        }
       }
      },
      "format": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "source": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "status": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "number"
       ]
      },
      "reasons": {
       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "summary": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "verdict": {
       "type": [

… (truncated)
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/rss-and-atom-feed-reader-latest-n-items-b5de4bc2/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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