Elixir Feed Parser

Elixir Atom/RSS Parser. Depends on Erlang's xmerl xml parser.

Current status

The code is currently in alpha state and my first ever written piece of Elixir code.

Setup

Add elixir-feed-parser to your mix dependencies and application.

def application do
  [applications: [:"elixir_feed_parser"]]
end

defp deps do
  [{:"elixir_feed_parser", "~> 0.0.1"}]
end

Then run mix deps.get to install it.

Parsing feeds

feed = ElixirFeedParser.parse(xml_string)
title = feed.title

The feed map provides the following properties which is a normalization based on the Atom and RSS2 standards. Whenever an attribute is normalized the original attribute is provided with a corresponding namespace.

For example the url attribute is actually a link element as defined by the RSS2 standard, therefore we additionally expose the rss2:link attribute.

List of feed properties

• title
• id (a unique identifier)
• description
• url
• links (array of strings)
• feed_url (the canonical link to the feed)
• updated (most recent update)
• authors
• language
• icon
• logo
• copyright
• generator
• categories (an array of strings)

List of article properties

• title
• id (a unique identifier)
• description
• url
• links (array of strings)
• updated (most recent update)
• published
• authors
• categories (an array of strings)
• source