rss-collector

A simple lightweight RSS feed parser. Parses XML data as a string into a JSON object.

Table of Contents

• Requirements
• Installation
• Usage
• Properties
• Methods
• Testing
• Authors

Requirements

• Node ^5.0.0
• NPM ^3.0.0

Installation

To install, you can use npm

$ npm install rss-collector

Usage

After completing the installation step, you're ready to start the project!

Example:

const rssParse = RssParse(data) //Sets XML data
  .itemSet('item') //Sets the feed items seperator
  .contentSet(['title', 'link']) //Sets the feed elements to return
  .clearCdata('title') //Clears any CDATA information for the selected element
  .linksSet('url=') //Image link query stored as an environment variable
  .contentGet() //returns parsed feed

itemSet() has a default value of 'item' and can be omitted

Properties

|Key|Description| |-|-| |rss| RSS feed in text format |

Methods

Set and clear methods are used as part of the method chaining. get methods will return the parsed feed.

itemSet

Gets all of the data within the RSS items tag

const rssParse = RssParse(data)
  .itemSet('item')

contentSet

Gets the content of RSS tags matching the values entered

const rssParse = RssParse(data)
  .contentSet(['title', 'link'])

clearCdata

Clears the CDATA HTML element from any given content field

const rssParse = RssParse(data)
  .contentSet(['content']) //Required
  .clearCdata('content')

linksSet

Returns any data within speech marks after the matching value entered

const rssParse = RssParse(data)
  .contentSet(['content']) //Required
  .linksSet('url=')

contentGet

Sub description

const rssParse = RssParse(data)
  .contentSet(['content']) //Required
  .contentGet()

Testing

$ npm run test

Authors

James Nicholls