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Getting Started#

This integration creates a workflow with a RSS trigger and Apify action. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

Select this integration
Configure the New Item From Multiple RSS Feeds trigger
1. Connect your RSS account
2. Configure timer
3. Configure Feed URLs
4. Optional- Configure Max per Feed
Configure the Scrape Single URL action
1. Connect your Apify account
2. Configure URL
3. Select a Crawler Type
Deploy the workflow
Send a test event to validate your setup
Turn on the trigger

Details#

This integration uses pre-built, source-available components from Pipedream's GitHub repo. These components are developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Trigger#

New Item From Multiple RSS Feeds on RSS

Description:Emit new items from multiple RSS feeds

Version:1.2.7

Key:rss-new-item-from-multiple-feeds

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RSS Overview#

The RSS app allows users to automatically fetch and parse updates from web feeds. This functionality is pivotal for staying abreast of content changes or updates from websites, blogs, and news outlets that offer RSS feeds. With Pipedream, you can harness the RSS API to trigger workflows that enable a broad range of automations, like content aggregation, monitoring for specific keywords, notifications, and data synchronization across platforms.

Trigger Code#

import rss from "../../app/rss.app.mjs";
import { defineSource } from "@pipedream/types";
import rssCommon from "../common/common.mjs";
export default defineSource({
    ...rssCommon,
    key: "rss-new-item-from-multiple-feeds",
    name: "New Item From Multiple RSS Feeds",
    type: "source",
    description: "Emit new items from multiple RSS feeds",
    version: "1.2.7",
    props: {
        ...rssCommon.props,
        urls: {
            propDefinition: [
                rss,
                "urls",
            ],
            description: "Enter one or multiple URLs from any public RSS feed. To avoid timeouts, 5 or less URLs is recommended.",
        },
        max: {
            type: "integer",
            label: "Max per Feed",
            description: "Maximum number of posts per feed to retrieve at one time. Defaults to 20.",
            optional: true,
            default: 20,
        },
    },
    dedupe: "unique",
    hooks: {
        async activate() {
            // Try to parse the feed one time to confirm we can fetch and parse.
            // The code will throw any errors to the user.
            for (const url of this.urls) {
                await this.rss.fetchAndParseFeed(url);
            }
        },
    },
    async run() {
        const items = [];
        for (const url of this.urls) {
            const feedItems = (await this.rss.fetchAndParseFeed(url))?.slice(0, this.max);
            console.log(`Retrieved items from ${url}`);
            items.push(...feedItems);
        }
        this.rss.sortItems(items).forEach((item) => {
            const meta = this.generateMeta(item);
            this.$emit(item, meta);
        });
    },
});

Trigger Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
RSS	`rss`	`app`	This component uses the RSS app.
	`timer`	`$.interface.timer`	How often you want to poll the feed for new items
Feed URLs	`urls`	`string[]`	Enter one or multiple URLs from any public RSS feed. To avoid timeouts, 5 or less URLs is recommended.
Max per Feed	`max`	`integer`	Maximum number of posts per feed to retrieve at one time. Defaults to 20.

Trigger Authentication#

The RSS API does not require authentication.

About RSS#

Real Simple Syndication

Action#

Scrape Single URL on Apify

Description:Executes a scraper on a specific website and returns its content as text. This action is perfect for extracting content from a single page.

Version:0.0.1

Key:apify-scrape-single-url

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Apify Overview#

The Apify API unleashes the power to automate web scraping, process data, and orchestrate web automation workflows. By utilizing Apify on Pipedream, you can create dynamic serverless workflows to manage tasks like extracting data from websites, running browser automation, and scheduling these jobs to run autonomously. It integrates smoothly with Pipedream's capabilities to trigger actions on various other apps, store the results, and manage complex data flow with minimal setup.

Action Code#

import apify from "../../apify.app.mjs";
import { ACTOR_ID } from "../../common/constants.mjs";

export default {
  key: "apify-scrape-single-url",
  name: "Scrape Single URL",
  description: "Executes a scraper on a specific website and returns its content as text. This action is perfect for extracting content from a single page.",
  version: "0.0.1",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    apify,
    url: {
      type: "string",
      label: "URL",
      description: "The URL of the web page to scrape.",
      optional: false,
    },
    crawlerType: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Crawler Type",
      description: "Select the crawling engine:\n- **Headless web browser** - Useful for modern websites with anti-scraping protections and JavaScript rendering. It recognizes common blocking patterns like CAPTCHAs and automatically retries blocked requests through new sessions. However, running web browsers is more expensive as it requires more computing resources and is slower. It is recommended to use at least 8 GB of RAM.\n- **Stealthy web browser** (default) - Another headless web browser with anti-blocking measures enabled. Try this if you encounter bot protection while scraping. For best performance, use with Apify Proxy residential IPs. \n- **Raw HTTP client** - High-performance crawling mode that uses raw HTTP requests to fetch the pages. It is faster and cheaper, but it might not work on all websites.",
      options: [
        {
          label: "Headless browser (stealthy Firefox+Playwright) - Very reliable, best in avoiding blocking, but might be slow",
          value: "playwright:firefox",
        },
        {
          label: "Headless browser (Chrome+Playwright) - Reliable, but might be slow",
          value: "playwright:chrome",
        },
        {
          label: "Raw HTTP client (Cheerio) - Extremely fast, but cannot handle dynamic content",
          value: "cheerio",
        },
      ],
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    const response = await this.apify.runActor({
      $,
      actorId: ACTOR_ID,
      data: {
        crawlerType: this.crawlerType,
        maxCrawlDepth: 0,
        maxCrawlPages: 1,
        maxResults: 1,
        startUrls: [
          {
            url: this.url,
          },
        ],
      },
    });
    $.export("$summary", `Successfully scraped content from ${this.url}`);
    return response;
  },
};

Action Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
Apify	`apify`	`app`	This component uses the Apify app.
URL	`url`	`string`	The URL of the web page to scrape.
Crawler Type	`crawlerType`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu:`{ "label": "Headless browser (stealthy Firefox+Playwright) - Very reliable, best in avoiding blocking, but might be slow", "value": "playwright:firefox" }{ "label": "Headless browser (Chrome+Playwright) - Reliable, but might be slow", "value": "playwright:chrome" }{ "label": "Raw HTTP client (Cheerio) - Extremely fast, but cannot handle dynamic content", "value": "cheerio" }`