RSS Parser
Parse RSS feeds in Node.js and browser with simple, lightweight API.
Scraping, browsers and parsing npm MIT
Used in agent projects
21
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in scraping, browsers and parsing
#15 of 16
by use in those projects
Downloads
878K
npm, last 7 days, rss-parser
GitHub stars
1,531
last push Aug 25, 2026
How RSS Parser is used
RSS Parser is a dependency in 21 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #15 of 16 in scraping, browsers and parsing. The most used alternative there is Beautiful Soup. Projects that use it most often also use dotenv (47.6%), React (76.2%), Zod (47.6%).
Often used with RSS Parser
| dotenv | 47.6% of RSS Parser projects · 3.0× more than average |
|---|---|
| React | 76.2% of RSS Parser projects · 1.8× more than average |
| Zod | 47.6% of RSS Parser projects · 2.8× more than average |
| Google Generative AI | 33.3% of RSS Parser projects · 16.4× more than average |
| OpenAI | 28.6% of RSS Parser projects · 10.0× more than average |
| Model Context Protocol SDK (JavaScript) | 28.6% of RSS Parser projects · 6.0× more than average |
| Nodemailer | 28.6% of RSS Parser projects · 15.6× more than average |
| TypeScript | 81.0% of RSS Parser projects |
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list RSS Parser as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install rss-parser |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (10), Next.js (9), Python (1), React Native / Expo (1) |
Alternatives to RSS Parser
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beautiful Soup pypi Python HTML/XML parsing and screen-scraping library for web data extraction. |
160 (1.3%) | 69M | — | MIT License |
| Puppeteer npm Headless Chrome/Chromium automation for scraping, testing and screenshot generation. |
115 (0.9%) | 11.4M | 95.7K | Apache-2.0 |
| lxml pypi High-performance XML and HTML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with Python. |
98 (0.8%) | 88.4M | 3,065 | BSD-3-Clause |
| Cheerio npm jQuery-like syntax for parsing and manipulating HTML/XML with server-side speed. |
94 (0.7%) | 26.6M | 30.5K | MIT |
| Playwright (Python) pypi High-level Python API for automating browser testing and web scraping. |
68 (0.5%) | 26M | 15K | — |
| fast-xml-parser npm High-performance XML parser and builder without native dependencies. |
58 (0.5%) | 83.3M | 3,139 | MIT |
| csv-parse npm Parse CSV files using Node.js streaming Transform API for memory-efficient processing. |
51 (0.4%) | 20.6M | 4,280 | MIT |
| Playwright Core npm Headless browser automation library for cross-browser testing and web scraping. |
49 (0.4%) | 122M | 97.4K | Apache-2.0 |