This is a piece of software that checks RSS feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added to them. In general, the first thing you need is something called a news reader. RSS simplifies the way you stay informed and helps you take control of overloaded email inboxes. Why use RSS?īy using RSS you can stay on top of the news and information you need without using your e-mail system and without repeatedly checking multiple Web sites to see if they have been updated. Typically RSS feeds consist of headlines and short summaries of new articles, blog entries or search results, though some Web sites and blogs offer the full text of articles or blog entrees as feeds. RSS is a time-saving way for you to receive news and information updates (often called 'RSS feeds', 'news feeds' or simply 'feeds') from your favorite Web sites and blogs. If your RSS feed contains fields that aren't currently returned, you can access them using the customFields option.RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Atom's updated becomes lastBuildDate for consistency.If author is specified, but not dc:creator, creator will be set to author ( see article).Both dc:date and pubDate will be available in ISO 8601 format as isoDate.The dc: prefix will be removed from all fields.The contentSnippet field strips out HTML tags and unescapes HTML entities.title: 'The water is too deep, so he improvises ' link: ' ' pubDate: 'Thu, 21:16:39 +0000 ' creator: 'John Doe ' content: 'this is a link & this is bold text ' contentSnippet: 'this is a link & this is bold text ' guid: ' ' categories: feed.entries is now ems (to better match RSS XML)Ĭheck out the full output format in test/output/reddit.jsonįeedUrl: ' ' title: 'reddit: the front page of the internet ' description: ' ' link: ' ' items:.parsed.feed is now just feed (top-level object removed).

options are now passed to the Parser constructor.parseFile is no longer available (for better browser support).

You need to construct a new Parser() before calling parseString or parseURL.

parseURL ( CORS_PROXY + '', function ( err, feed ) ) Upgrading from v2 to v3Ī few minor breaking changes were made in v3.

const CORS_PROXY = '' let parser = new RSSParser ( ) parser. To get around this, you can use a proxy. Note: some RSS feeds can't be loaded in the browser due to CORS security.

Rss feed viewer