ElixirRss

ElixirRss is a simple feed parser originally meant to parse the feed from crypto news. The existing Feed parser in elixir is either unnecessarily fast (rust dependant), or doesn't parse image information from RSS.

Installation

If available in Hex, the package can be installed by adding elixir_rss to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:elixir_rss, "~> 0.1.0"}
  ]
end

Usage

> {:ok, feed} = ElixirRss.fetch_and_parse "https://cointelegraph.com/rss"
...

> {:ok, feed} = ElixirRss.parse "<rss version=\"2.0\" xmlns:content=\"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/\" ..."
...

> feed.title
"Cointelegraph.com News"

> feed.entries |> Enum.map(&(&1.title))
["Kazakhstan among top 3 Bitcoin mining destinations after US and China", "3Commas issues security alert as FTX deletes API keys following hack", ...]

Results

Feed

• id feed identifier (usually the site url)
• title feed title
• description feed description
• url feed url
• site_url feed main site url
• updated feed last modification timestamp
• entries entry list

Entry

• id unique identifier (SHA256)
• title entry title
• url entry permalink
• content entry content
• image url of the thumbnail image
• updated entry publication or modification timestamp

Documentation can be generated with ExDoc and published on HexDocs. Once published, the docs can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/elixir_rss.