easyrss

EasyRSS - Simple RSS feed parsing in Node.js

This module adds methods for simple RSS feed parsing in node.js using libxmljs.

Requirements

EasyRSS makes use of libxmljs to parse RSS/Atom feeds. libxmljs requires scons to be installed prior to installing through npm.

Installing scons through Homebrew

On Mac OS X, the easiest way to install scons is using Homebrew, a great package manager for OS X. With brew installed, simply open Terminal and type:

brew install scons

Installing scons through APT

On Debian based Linux distributions like Ubuntu, simply install using apt-get like this:

sudo apt-get install scons

Installation

npm install easyrss

Example

var rss = require('easyrss')
  , inspect = require('util').inspect

rss.parseURL('http://conceited.net/blog/feed', function(posts){
  console.log(inspect(posts));
});

Contributors

The following are the major contributors of node-easyrss (in no specific order).

• Nicholas Penree (drudge)
• Rob Searles (ibrow)
• Jeromy Knope (jfro)
• Hannah Fouasnon (fouasnon)

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011 Nicholas Penree <[e-mail]>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.