easy-rss-parser

A lightweight library to give some additions for the rss-parser package.

USAGE

Punctual usage

You can parse RSS from a URL with some custom data.
An example :

const easyParser = require("easy-rss-parser");
const ListenerRss = easyParser.ListenerRss;

let listener = new ListenerRss("my-test-service", "fake.rss.service");

// make a request to the adr 'fake.rss.service'
myListener.fetchRSS().then((obj, err) => {
  // some act
});

Recurrent usage

You can parse RSS from a URL each n times.
An example :

const easyParser = require("easy-rss-parser");
const ListenerRss = easyParser.ListenerRss;

let listener = new ListenerRss("my-test-service", "fake.rss.service", 5 * 60);

let callback_fun = (obj, err) => {
  // some act
};
// call callback_fun each 5 minutes
listener.start(callback_fun);

/*...*/

listener.stop();

Documentation

ListenerRSSInfo

A class to structure listener's data.

Constructor

constructor(name, address, timeloop, customfields)

• name : the service name
• address : the service address
• [optional] timeloop : time to wait between 2 request in seconds (default 5 minutes)
• [optional] customfields : to notice field who's custom to the service (default blank) cf annexe CustomFields

ListenerRSS

Constructor

constructor(listenerRSSInfo)

• listenerRSSInfo : object from the ListenerRSSInfo's class.

constructor(name, address, timeloop, customfields)

• name : the service name
• address : the service address
• [optional] timeloop : time to wait between 2 request in seconds (default 5 minutes)
• [optional] customfields : to notice field who's custom to the service (default blank)

fetchRSS()

This function allows to make a request to the rss service.

Return

Return a promise object who's resolved like resolve: (value: result_fetch) => void)) where result_fetch is a json object who's contain the data. cf Annexe Output

Issues

Return an error if the server can't be resolved.

start(callbackFun)

This function will execute the callbackFun each time loop.

Parameter

The callbackFun is the function who's going to be called each time loop. She need to be under the shape :

(obj, err) => {
  /*...*/
};

stop()

This function will stop the execution of the callbackFun each time loop.

Annexe

CustomFields

This parameter permit to specify some custom fields who's present in the service but not in the RFC. For example the YouTube RSS api give some data into the <media:group> field. So you can give this info with this :

[["media:group", "media:group"]];

You can also rename the field with the left part :

[["my_custom_media_group_name", "media:group"]];

In adition you can rename child element into custom field like this :

[
  ["media:group", "media:group"],
  ["description", ["media:group", "media:description"]],
  ["icon", ["media:group", "media:thumbnail"]],
];

In this case it's useless to specify the parent field, so you can just omit the first line :

[
  ["description", ["media:group", "media:description"]],
  ["icon", ["media:group", "media:thumbnail"]],
];

Output

Here an example of what type of json object is output during a fetch :

feedUrl: 'fake.rrs.service'
title: 'myFakeApiTitle'
description: 'My Fake api desc'
link: 'fake.rrs.service'
items:
    -   title: 'My last item'
        link: 'fake.rrs.service/item1'
        pubDate: 'Thu, 12 Nov 2015 21:16:39 +0000'
        creator: 'someone'
        content: '<a href="http://example.com">this is a link</a> &amp; <b>this is bold text</b>'
        contentSnippet: 'this is a link & this is bold text'
        guid: 'fake.rrs.service/item1'
        categories:
            - test
            - npm
            - fakeInfos
        isoDate: '2015-11-12T21:16:39.000Z'