[LRUG] Parsing RSS in Ruby (Artem Avetisyan)

Sat May 4 06:21:34 PDT 2013

I used stdlib RSS and it served me well:

https://github.com/artemave/lj-friends-feed/blob/master/lib/rss_items_extractor.rb

Artem

On 4 May 2013, at 10:30, chat-request at lists.lrug.org wrote:

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> Subject: [LRUG] Parsing RSS in Ruby
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> Howdy,
> 
> I'd like to parse a few dozen RSS feeds with Ruby, but I'm not sure how
> best to parse them. Any recommendations between RSS in
> Stdlib<http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0/libdoc/rss/rdoc/RSS.html>or
> a gem?
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael Mokrysz
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> Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 02:52:24 +0200
> From: Niko Felger <niko.felger at gmail.com>
> To: Michael Mokrysz <sites at 46bit.com>
> Cc: "chat at lists.lrug.org" <chat at lists.lrug.org>
> Subject: Re: [LRUG] Parsing RSS in Ruby
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> Hi Michael,
> 
> This is a bit of a non-answer, but if the content of those feeds isn't too
> complex, you could just parse them with a generic XML parser like Nokogiri
> (or whatever is fashionable now). Getting all recent LRUG meeting titles,
> links and descriptions, for example, is just a few lines of code:
> 
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'nokogiri'
> require 'open-uri'
> 
> url = 'http://lrug.org/rss/meetings/'
> doc = Nokogiri::XML(open(url) {|file| file.read})
> doc.css('item').each do |item|
>  puts item.at('title').text
>  puts item.at('link').text
>  puts item.at('description').text[0..250]
> end
> 
> HTH,
> Niko
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Michael Mokrysz <sites at 46bit.com> wrote:
> 
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> I'd like to parse a few dozen RSS feeds with Ruby, but I'm not sure how
>> best to parse them. Any recommendations between RSS in Stdlib<http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0/libdoc/rss/rdoc/RSS.html>or a gem?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Michael Mokrysz
>> 
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>> 
>> This is a bit of a non-answer, but if the content of those feeds isn't too
>> complex, you could just parse them with a generic XML parser like Nokogiri
>> (or whatever is fashionable now). Getting all recent LRUG meeting titles,
>> links and descriptions, for example, is just a few lines of code:
>> 
> 
> Aha - that's brilliant, thanks a lot Niko. I'd started to wonder if I was
> missing the obvious, seems I was.
> 
> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Niko Felger <niko.felger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Michael,
>> 
>> This is a bit of a non-answer, but if the content of those feeds isn't too
>> complex, you could just parse them with a generic XML parser like Nokogiri
>> (or whatever is fashionable now). Getting all recent LRUG meeting titles,
>> links and descriptions, for example, is just a few lines of code:
>> 
>> require 'rubygems'
>> require 'nokogiri'
>> require 'open-uri'
>> 
>> url = 'http://lrug.org/rss/meetings/'
>> doc = Nokogiri::XML(open(url) {|file| file.read})
>> doc.css('item').each do |item|
>>  puts item.at('title').text
>>  puts item.at('link').text
>>  puts item.at('description').text[0..250]
>> end
>> 
>> HTH,
>> Niko
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Michael Mokrysz <sites at 46bit.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Howdy,
>>> 
>>> I'd like to parse a few dozen RSS feeds with Ruby, but I'm not sure how
>>> best to parse them. Any recommendations between RSS in Stdlib<http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0/libdoc/rss/rdoc/RSS.html>or a gem?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Michael Mokrysz
>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Chat mailing list
>>> Chat at lists.lrug.org
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> Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 10:17:45 +0100
> From: Richard Conroy <richard.conroy at gmail.com>
> To: Michael Mokrysz <sites at 46bit.com>
> Cc: "chat at lists.lrug.org" <chat at lists.lrug.org>
> Subject: Re: [LRUG] Parsing RSS in Ruby
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> There are quite a few RSS libraries in Ruby, but none seem popular.
> 
> Nokogiri and some kind of high performance HTTP client seems to be the
> standard way of processing RSS feeds.
> 
> 
> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 3:44 AM, Michael Mokrysz <sites at 46bit.com> wrote:
> 
>> This is a bit of a non-answer, but if the content of those feeds isn't too
>>> complex, you could just parse them with a generic XML parser like Nokogiri
>>> (or whatever is fashionable now). Getting all recent LRUG meeting titles,
>>> links and descriptions, for example, is just a few lines of code:
>>> 
>> 
>> Aha - that's brilliant, thanks a lot Niko. I'd started to wonder if I was
>> missing the obvious, seems I was.
>> 
>> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Niko Felger <niko.felger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Michael,
>>> 
>>> This is a bit of a non-answer, but if the content of those feeds isn't
>>> too complex, you could just parse them with a generic XML parser like
>>> Nokogiri (or whatever is fashionable now). Getting all recent LRUG meeting
>>> titles, links and descriptions, for example, is just a few lines of code:
>>> 
>>> require 'rubygems'
>>> require 'nokogiri'
>>> require 'open-uri'
>>> 
>>> url = 'http://lrug.org/rss/meetings/'
>>> doc = Nokogiri::XML(open(url) {|file| file.read})
>>> doc.css('item').each do |item|
>>>  puts item.at('title').text
>>>  puts item.at('link').text
>>>  puts item.at('description').text[0..250]
>>> end
>>> 
>>> HTH,
>>> Niko
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Michael Mokrysz <sites at 46bit.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Howdy,
>>>> 
>>>> I'd like to parse a few dozen RSS feeds with Ruby, but I'm not sure how
>>>> best to parse them. Any recommendations between RSS in Stdlib<http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0/libdoc/rss/rdoc/RSS.html>or a gem?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Michael Mokrysz
>>>> 
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Chat mailing list
>>>> Chat at lists.lrug.org
>>>> http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
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> Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 10:29:40 +0100
> From: Jordan Elver <jordan.elver at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [LRUG] Parsing RSS in Ruby
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>> Nokogiri and some kind of high performance HTTP client seems to be the
>> standard way of processing RSS feeds.
> 
> Feedzirra seems popular for that.
> 
> https://github.com/pauldix/feedzirra
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