rivu

Rivu - Type-Safe RSS 2.0 Feed Generator

Rivu is a modern TypeScript library for generating RSS 2.0 feeds programmatically. It enforces strict type safety, validates required channel metadata and produces a fully compliant RSS feed as an XML document.

Features

Rivu provides the following functionalities:

• 100% RSS 2.0 compliant output.
• Lightweight and fast (based on Node.js).
• Fully type-safe using TypeScript interfaces.
• Strict validation for required RSS channel fields.
• Custom feed items with rich optional metadata.
• Small footprint and works in Node.js and other JavaScript runtimes.

Install Rivu right now using the following commands:

pnpm i rivu

Quick Usage

You can quickly generate a RSS 2.0 output with the following lines of code:

import { Feed } from "rivu";

const feed = new Feed({
  title: "Somraj's Blog",
  link: "https://jarmos.dev/rss.xml",
  description:
    "The personal blog (and digital garden) maintained by Somraj Saha (aka Jarmos).",
  language: "en-US",
  items: [
    {
      title: "Example Blog",
      description: "Lorem Ipsum",
      pubDate: new Date("2025-10-10"),
    },
  ],
});

feed.generate();

This should print a full RSS 2.0 feed as a string like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0">
  <channel>
    ...
  </channel>
</rss>

For more information with regards to the API reference, a more detailed usage guide and the contribution guidelines, check out the official documentation.

Licensing and Distribution Rights

The package is built using open-source tools and the source code of the package itself is also provided publicly accessible under an open-source license. Therefore, you are free to copy, modify and/or distribute the package under the T&Cs of the MIT license. For more information about the distribution rights in the LICENSE document.