RSS Parser

The javaxt-rss library is a simple, lightweight, open source RSS parser. It is used to parse both Atom and RSS feeds and extract common attributes including title, author, date, etc.

Key Features

• Basic Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0 Support
• Normalizes Tag Names to Identify Common Attributes
• Automatically Serializes Dates and URLs to Native Java Types
• GeoRSS and W3C Geo Support

Basic Usage

Here's a simple example of how to parse an RSS feed using the javaxt-rss library.
Please refer to the JavaDocs for a complete list of class and methods.

  //Download an RSS Feed and serialize it to an org.w3c.dom.Document. Note that in this 
  //example we are using the javaxt-core library but you can use whatever you want.
    String url = "http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/rss";
    org.w3c.dom.Document xml = new javaxt.http.Request(url).getResponse().getXML();


  //Once we have an XML DOM Document, instantiate the RSS parser and loop through  
  //individual feeds. Usually there's only one feed or channel per document.
    for (javaxt.rss.Feed feed : new javaxt.rss.Parser(xml).getFeeds()){


      //Print basic information about the RSS feed
        System.out.println(feed.getTitle());
        System.out.println(feed.getDescription());
        System.out.println("Date:\t" + feed.getLastUpdate());
        System.out.println();


      //Iterate through individual items in the feed
        for (javaxt.rss.Item item : feed.getItems()){
            System.out.println("Title:\t" + item.getTitle());
            System.out.println("Date:\t" + item.getDate());
            System.out.println("Link:\t" + item.getLink());
            System.out.println("Location:\t" + item.getLocation());
            System.out.println("Media:");
            for (javaxt.rss.Media media : item.getMedia()){
                System.out.println("Type:\t" + media.getType());
                System.out.println("Link:\t" + media.getLink());
            }
            System.out.println();
        }
    }