agentutility(7)$ man rss-from-anything
/rss-from-anything
PRICE / CALL
$0.04
USDC · base mainnet · scheme: exact
METHOD
POST
CLUSTER
webprobeCATEGORY
utilities
STATUS
● live
NAME
rss-from-anything — rss feed generator / html to rss converter
SYNOPSIS
POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/rss-from-anything
Content-Type: application/json
X-PAYMENT: <signed-transferWithAuthorization>
{ ... }↳ first call →
402 Payment Required. Sign USDCtransferWithAuthorization, retry with theX-PAYMENT header.DESCRIPTION
RSS feed generator / HTML to RSS converter. Auto-detects article items on any HTML page, OR pass CSS selectors. RSS 2.0 output. For sites that don't publish a feed.
INPUT — request schema
| property | type | description | req? |
|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | — | required |
| feed_title | string | — | optional |
| item_selector | string | — | optional |
| title_selector | string | — | optional |
| link_selector | string | — | optional |
| date_selector | string | — | optional |
| description_selector | string | — | optional |
| max_items | number | — | optional |
OUTPUT — response shape
| field | type | description |
|---|---|---|
| rss | string | RSS 2.0 XML document as a string, ready to serve or save as .xml. |
| mime_type | string | MIME type for the rss payload, typically application/rss+xml. |
| feed_title | string | Channel title derived from the source page's <title> or heading. |
| feed_link | string | Canonical link back to the source page used as the feed's channel link. |
| feed_description | string | Channel description derived from the page meta description or first paragraph. |
| item_count | number | Number of items extracted and included in the feed. |
| items | array | Array of parsed feed items with title, link, pubDate, and description fields. |
| mode | string | Extraction mode used: 'auto' for heuristic detection or 'selectors' when CSS selectors were supplied. |
EXAMPLES — two ways to call
EXAMPLE 1 · curl
curl -X POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/rss-from-anything \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{ }'first response =
402 Payment Required with payment requirements; sign + retry with X-PAYMENT.EXAMPLE 2 · mcp
# Install the MCP package for this endpoint's cluster npx -y @agentutility/mcp-<cluster> # Required: EVM private key with USDC on Base export X402_PRIVATE_KEY=0x... # Then call the rss-from-anything tool from your MCP-aware agent.
MCP server handles payment automatically — your coding agent just calls the tool by name.
METADATA
- tags
- rssfeedscrapemonitorhtml
- methods
- POST
- cluster
- webprobe
- price
- $0.04 USDC per call
ADJACENT — other endpoints in webprobe
| endpoint | description | price |
|---|---|---|
| answer-web | Answers natural-language questions with live web research, returning a synthesized answer with inline [N] citations and the source URLs. | $0.04 |
| arxiv-summarize | arXiv paper summarizer / research-paper TLDR. | $0.04 |
| scrape | Scrape any webpage. | $0.04 |
| scrape-website | Scrapes any webpage and pulls title, description, canonical URL, OpenGraph + Twitter card metadata, headings, and outbound links from a s… | $0.04 |
| screenshot | Website screenshot / URL to PNG/JPG. | $0.04 |
| webpage-diff | Detects changes on a webpage: fetches a URL, strips HTML to plain text, computes a SHA-256 hash, and (when given a previous hash or text)… | $0.04 |
| website-screenshot | Captures a website screenshot from a URL as PNG or JPG. | $0.04 |
| arxiv-search | arXiv full-text search. | $0.03 |
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