RSS/Atom parsing libraries for Ruby?

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Anything close to the excellent http://feedparser.org?

--Jonas Galvez

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Jonas Galvez wrote:

Anything close to the excellent http://feedparser.org?

Try

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/rss/rdoc/

James

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James Britt wrote:

www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/rss/rdoc/

Thanks, looks very good, except it doesn't handle Atom.

--Jonas Galvez

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Another question is how liberal the parser is. The world is jam-packed full
of malformed feeds. It might be interesting to see how hard it would be to
port Mark's ultra-liberal feed parser to Ruby, which does support Atom (and
RSS and CDF).

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On 7/12/05, Jonas Galvez <jonasgalvez@gmail.com> wrote:

James Britt wrote:
> www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/rss/rdoc/<http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/rss/rdoc/&gt;

Thanks, looks very good, except it doesn't handle Atom.

--Jonas Galvez

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Jonas Galvez wrote:

James Britt wrote:

www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/rss/rdoc/

Thanks, looks very good, except it doesn't handle Atom.

Or RSS 0.9, or RSS 2.0 with extended Dublin Core, or RSS 2.0 with extensions unless you turn off validation.

I was working on documenting RSS (the library) recently, and in my view it's really not very good for parsing. It also seems rather un-Ruby-like in not providing a single API for all kinds of feed.

mathew