# ScrapeMole Reader – RSS/Atom/JSON Feed Fetcher

> ScrapeMole Reader – RSS/Atom/JSON Feed Fetcher is a paid API for AI agents from reader.scrapemole.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).

Fetches and normalizes RSS, Atom, or JSON feeds (or auto-discovers them from a page URL) into a structured list of items

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://reader.scrapemole.workers.dev/v1/feed?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-12
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/scrapemole-reader-rss-atom-json-feed-fetcher-abf5f3d7
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_fvlfEhuX04gB0ncBL6ueq

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 scrapemole-reader-rss-atom-json-feed-fetcher-abf5f3d7
```

Example prompt: Fetch the latest 10 articles from the Hacker News front page RSS feed at https://hnrss.org/frontpage and give me the titles, links, and publication dates.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to consume syndicated content (RSS, Atom, JSON Feed) in a normalized, structured form without managing feed parsers yourself. It also handles auto-discovery from a page URL, saving extra lookup steps. Prefer it over a generic web scraper when the target site publishes a feed, as it returns semantically clean item data (author, published date, summary) rather than raw HTML or Markdown.

## Known failure modes

- Feed URL is unreachable or returns non-200 (request not charged)
- URL points to a page with no discoverable feed
- Feed is malformed or uses an unsupported format
- limit parameter out of range (must be 1–100)
- Payment verification fails before work begins (not charged)

## How this service works

Pay-per-call web reading for agents: any public page as clean Markdown, link-preview/SEO metadata (Open Graph, Twitter card, favicon, JSON-LD), RSS/Atom/JSON feeds normalized, every link on a page (internal/external, rel) and a site's XML sitemap as a URL list. USDC via x402, no accounts or API keys; failed calls are never charged.

Payments: x402 v2, scheme "exact", USDC on Base (eip155:8453). The payment is verified before the work and settled only when the response is 200. Terms: https://reader.scrapemole.workers.dev/terms

## Output

A JSON object containing the feed's title, format (rss-2.0, atom, json-feed, etc.), canonical feed URL, source page link, item count, and an array of normalized items — each with id, title, link, author, summary text, and ISO 8601 published timestamp.

## 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",
       "examples": [
        "https://hnrss.org/frontpage"
       ],
       "description": "Feed URL, or a site/page URL to auto-discover its feed."
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "string",
       "default": "20",
       "description": "Max items (1-100)."
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": false
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "url": "https://hnrss.org/frontpage",
  "link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/",
  "count": 1,
  "items": [
   {
    "id": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1",
    "link": "https://example.com/post",
    "title": "Show HN: …",
    "author": "pg",
    "summary": "Article URL: … Points: 120 # Comments: 45",
    "published": "2026-10-11T18:00:00.000Z"
   }
  ],
  "title": "Hacker News: Front Page",
  "format": "rss-2.0",
  "feedUrl": "https://hnrss.org/frontpage"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/scrapemole-reader-rss-atom-json-feed-fetcher-abf5f3d7/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from reader.scrapemole.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/reader.scrapemole.workers.dev/llms.txt)