Content Aggregation
RSS Is Dead. Scrape Instead.
Collect articles, news, and research from any website — even JavaScript-heavy SPAs without RSS feeds. SnapRender renders pages in a real browser and returns clean Markdown or structured JSON. Build news aggregators, research tools, and content feeds that work with any source.
RSS doesn't cover the modern web
Most modern websites don't publish RSS feeds. Those that do often include only titles and summaries, not full content. And JavaScript-rendered sites (React, Next.js, Vue apps) can't be scraped with simple HTTP requests — the content doesn't exist until JavaScript runs.
SnapRender's /markdown endpoint renders any page in a headless browser, strips navigation, ads, and boilerplate, and returns clean article content as Markdown. The /extract endpoint pulls specific metadata fields using CSS selectors. Together, they replace RSS for any source.
Aggregate content from any source
import requests
# Extract article content as clean Markdown
resp = requests.post('https://api.snaprender.dev/v1/markdown',
headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_KEY'},
json={
'url': 'https://techblog.com/article/new-framework-2026'
})
article = resp.json()
# {"title": "The New Framework Everyone Is Talking About",
# "content": "## Introduction\n\nThe JavaScript ecosystem...",
# "url": "https://techblog.com/article/new-framework-2026"}
# Or extract structured metadata
resp = requests.post('https://api.snaprender.dev/v1/scrape',
headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_KEY'},
json={
'url': 'https://techblog.com/article/new-framework-2026',
'extract': {
'title': 'h1',
'author': '.author-name',
'date': 'time@datetime',
'summary': 'meta[name="description"]@content',
'image': 'meta[property="og:image"]@content'
}
})
metadata = resp.json()
# {"title": "...", "author": "Jane Smith",
# "date": "2026-04-10", "summary": "...",
# "image": "https://..."}// Aggregate articles from multiple sources
const sources = [
{ name: 'TechBlog', url: 'https://techblog.com/latest' },
{ name: 'DevNews', url: 'https://devnews.io/feed' },
{ name: 'AIWeekly', url: 'https://aiweekly.co/posts' },
];
const articles = [];
for (const source of sources) {
// Get article links from the index page
const indexRes = await fetch(
'https://api.snaprender.dev/v1/scrape',
{
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_KEY',
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
},
body: JSON.stringify({
url: source.url,
extract: {
'links[]': {
selector: 'a.article-link',
fields: {
title: '.article-title',
href: '@href',
date: '.article-date'
}
}
}
})
}
);
const { links } = await indexRes.json();
// Fetch full content for each article
for (const link of links.slice(0, 5)) {
const mdRes = await fetch(
'https://api.snaprender.dev/v1/markdown',
{
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_KEY',
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
},
body: JSON.stringify({ url: link.href })
}
);
const content = await mdRes.json();
articles.push({ source: source.name, ...content });
}
}
// articles: [{source, title, content, url}, ...]What you can build
News aggregators
Build industry-specific news feeds by collecting articles from dozens of sources. Filter by topic, deduplicate, and present in a unified interface.
Research tools
Collect academic papers, reports, and data from multiple repositories. Structure and index content for search, citation tracking, and trend analysis.
Competitive intelligence
Monitor competitor blogs, press releases, and product updates. Track messaging changes, feature announcements, and pricing updates automatically.
Content curation platforms
Power newsletter tools, reading apps, and content recommendation engines. Extract clean article content with metadata for summarization and categorization.
Simple pricing for aggregation
Each page extraction counts as one request. Monitor 100+ sources daily for $29/mo.
Frequently asked questions
Content aggregation is the automated collection of articles, news, data, or media from multiple online sources into a unified feed or dataset. It powers news aggregators, research tools, industry dashboards, and personalized content feeds.
RSS is dying — fewer than 20% of sites still publish RSS feeds, and those that do often include only titles and summaries. Content aggregation via scraping gives you full articles, structured metadata, images, and data from any website — whether or not they offer an RSS feed.
SnapRender's scraping API renders JavaScript-heavy sites (paywalled news, SPAs, React apps) and returns content as clean Markdown or structured JSON. The /markdown endpoint strips navigation, ads, and boilerplate — returning just the article content. The /extract endpoint pulls specific fields using CSS selectors.
SnapRender renders publicly accessible content only. For soft-paywalled sites (limited free articles), SnapRender can render the free content. Hard paywalls require authentication, which SnapRender does not bypass. Always respect content licensing and terms of service.
SnapRender offers multiple output formats: Markdown (clean article text), JSON (structured data via CSS selectors), and HTML (raw rendered page). For content aggregation, Markdown is usually best — it strips navigation, ads, and scripts, leaving just the article content.
Each source page counts as one API request. The $29/mo plan (5,000 requests) supports monitoring 100+ sources multiple times per day. For high-volume aggregation (thousands of sources), contact us for enterprise plans with higher limits.
Aggregate anything. From anywhere.
Clean Markdown or structured JSON from any website. No RSS required. Start free.
Start Free — 100 requests/month