universal_feed 0.2.0

Universal parser for RSS and Atom feeds with support for some extensions (dc, dcterms, media, itunes, georss, syndication, content)

Universal Feed Parser

Library to parse RSS and Atom feeds. It includes support for RSS from version 0.90 to 2.0 and Atom 0.3 and 1.0.

It has out-of-the-box support for some common extensions like:

• Dublin Core
• Dublin Core Terms
• Geo RSS
• Media RSS
• Syndication
• Itunes

This library makes no assumptions about the data parsed and tries to be quite liberal about the feed's content. For example, timestamps, the field's value is read, but there is no attempt to parse them. The TimeStamp object used to collect the data will have methods to help with the parsing later.

Getting started

Simple example to get started:

  final file = File(filepath);
  final content = file.readAsStringSync();

  final uf = UniversalFeed(content);
  if (uf.kind == FeedKind.rss) {
    // work with feed as RSS
  } else {
    // work with feed as Atom
  }

Developing

The library is entirely new and was not battle-tested yet. I'm using a corpus of 400~ feeds, and it goes through it without trouble. But there are some parts that I want to review and maybe refactor.