parsefeed

the easy way to parse a feed/rss with promise/async function, powers by feedparser

Installation

npm i parsefeed

How to use

const { parseFeed } = require("parsefeed");

parseFeed("http://example.com/feed").then((items) => {
    for (const item of items) {
        console.log(item.title);
        console.log(item.meta);
    }
});

(async () => {
    const items = await parseFeed("http://example.com/feed");
    for (const item of items) {
        console.log(item.title);
        console.log(item.meta);
    }
})()

List of item properties

• title

• description (frequently, the full article content)

• summary (frequently, an excerpt of the article content)

• link

• origlink (when FeedBurner or Pheedo puts a special tracking url in the link property, origlink contains the original link)

• permalink (when an RSS feed has a guid field and the isPermalink attribute is not set to false, permalink contains the value of guid)

• date (most recent update)

• pubdate (original published date)

• author

• guid (a unique identifier for the article)

• comments (a link to the article's comments section)

• image (an Object containing url and title properties)

• categories (an Array of Strings)

• source (an Object containing url and title properties pointing to the original source for an article; see the RSS Spec for an explanation of this element)

• enclosures (an Array of Objects, each representing a podcast or other enclosure and having a url property and possibly type and length properties)

• meta (an Object containing all the feed meta properties; especially handy when using the EventEmitter interface to listen to article emissions)

  • title
  • description
  • link (website link)
  • xmlurl (the canonical link to the feed, as specified by the feed)
  • date (most recent update)
  • pubdate (original published date)
  • author
  • language
  • image (an Object containing url and title properties)
  • favicon (a link to the favicon -- only provided by Atom feeds)
  • copyright
  • generator
  • categories (an Array of Strings)

(refer: feedparser's document)