Blog Feed Monitor

Description

Scrape blog posts via RSS feeds (free, no API key) with Apify fallback for JS-heavy sites. Use when you need to monitor competitor blogs, track industry content, or aggregate blog posts by keyword.

What this skill does

1. 1Discovers RSS or Atom feeds for any blog URL by checking HTML link tags and probing common feed paths (/feed, /rss, /atom.xml, and others).
2. 2Parses discovered feeds for RSS 2.0 and Atom formats, then filters posts client-side by date range and keyword matches.
3. 3Falls back to Apify RSS scraper for JavaScript-heavy sites that do not expose standard feeds.
4. 4Returns filtered posts as JSON or a readable summary, with configurable date window, keyword filters, and max post count.

When to use

• You want to monitor competitor blogs for new posts on specific topics without setting up a dedicated tool.
• You need to aggregate recent blog posts from multiple sources filtered by keyword for a weekly digest.
• You are tracking industry content and want a lightweight, API-free way to pull posts from known blogs.
• You want to check what competitors published in the last 30 days before writing a counter-positioning piece.

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