RSS to JSON Converter Online 2026 - Fast, Secure & Private
Convert RSS feeds and Atom feeds to JSON format. Easily integrate external news feeds into your apps. 100% client-side privacy. Free online tool.
Key Features
- ✅ Supports RSS 2.0 and Atom formats
- ✅ Clean JSON output
- ✅ Extracts titles, links, and dates
- ✅ No server-side storage of feed data
How to Use
- Copy the raw XML source from an RSS or Atom feed
- Paste the XML into the converter
- Click Convert to generate the normalized JSON feed
- Use the JSON data in your application front-end
Expert FAQ
- RSS 2.0 and Atom are structurally different formats — does this normalize them to one JSON shape, or output them differently?
It normalizes to one consistent JSON shape regardless of source format: RSS 2.0's <item>/<pubDate>/<link> and Atom's <entry>/<published>/<link href="..."> (a genuinely different element and attribute layout for equivalent data) both map to the same output field names, so code consuming the JSON doesn't need separate branches for "if this was originally RSS" vs "if this was originally Atom." - Does it handle podcast feeds with <enclosure> tags for audio files?
Yes — enclosure tags (used for podcast audio/video attachments) are recognized and mapped to explicit url/type/length JSON properties, rather than being dropped as an unrecognized element, since podcast feed consumers specifically need that attachment metadata to build a playable episode list. - What happens with malformed or non-standard feed XML — a lot of real-world RSS feeds aren't strictly spec-compliant.
True to real-world RSS in the wild, this parser tolerates some common non-compliance (missing optional elements, inconsistent date formats across different <pubDate> variants) rather than requiring byte-perfect spec adherence, since a hard failure on the first minor deviation would make the tool useless for a large share of actual feeds. Genuinely malformed XML (unclosed tags, invalid characters) still fails, since that's a well-formedness problem no amount of leniency can safely paper over. - Are HTML entities and CDATA-wrapped content in item descriptions handled correctly?
Yes — RSS descriptions are frequently HTML-encoded or wrapped in CDATA (since the description often contains embedded HTML markup for rendering), and both forms are correctly unwrapped/decoded to their actual text/HTML content in the JSON output rather than being passed through with literal escape sequences or CDATA delimiters still attached.
Technical Details
RSS 2.0 and Atom are both XML-based syndication formats but use meaningfully different element structures for equivalent data — RSS uses <item>, <pubDate>, and a plain-text <link>; Atom uses <entry>, <published>, and a <link href="..."> attribute instead of element text. This converter normalizes both to one consistent JSON shape, so downstream code working with the converted output doesn't need separate handling branches depending on which syndication format the source feed happened to use — a meaningful simplification when aggregating feeds from multiple sources that don't all use the same format. Podcast-specific feeds add <enclosure> elements carrying attachment metadata (audio/video URL, MIME type, file size) that a general-purpose XML-to-JSON converter would either miss or map awkwardly; this converter recognizes enclosures specifically and maps them to explicit url/type/length JSON properties, since that metadata is exactly what a podcast client needs to build a playable episode list. Real-world RSS feeds are frequently not strictly spec-compliant — missing optional elements, inconsistent date formatting across different publishers' <pubDate> implementations — and this parser tolerates that common class of minor non-compliance rather than hard-failing on the first deviation, since strict spec enforcement would make the tool unusable for a large fraction of feeds actually found in the wild. Genuine well-formedness problems (unclosed tags, invalid characters) still fail, since no amount of leniency can safely guess at genuinely broken XML. Item descriptions, which are commonly HTML-encoded or CDATA-wrapped since they often embed HTML markup for rendering, are correctly unwrapped to their actual content rather than left with literal escape sequences or CDATA delimiters intact. Once converted, explore the result in the JSON Viewer or export selected fields with JSON to CSV.