⚠️ Please deploy RLRSS to your own Heroku instance.

Too many people are frequently polling the Heroku url mentioned in this readme. If you get an "application error" near the end of the month: no need to report it. It means the demo Heroku account ran out of free dynos and stopped running. It'll be back up the next month.

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Decided to write this script because the official Rocket League news site does not provide an RSS news feed. PHP was the language of choice so I could write it quickly and run it on my cheap PHP server — though I have since moved to Heroku.

Since this script scrapes content from Rocket League's news pages, it is very prone to breaking e.g. when Psyonix update their layout, which they have done a couple of times recently. If you notice that the script is no longer working properly (which means you did before I did), please create an issue (or fix it and submit a PR). Thanks!

The script generates a very complete and valid RSS feed on the fly and takes 2 (well, actually 3) optional parameters.

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Parameters

Name	Default	Description
limit	10	The amount of recent news items to include in the feed. -1 will include all items, and 0 will make the feed pretty useless.
detail	true	Generates rich <description> and <author> fields for feed items when set to true, but be careful: may significantly slow down feed generation when limit is a high number and on Heroku you might hit a request timeout!
debug	false	Only thing this does is tell libxml2 to send output through PHP. You likely won't want this, because till libxml2 supports HTML5, your log will be flooded with libxml2 warnings.

Examples:

• https://rlrss.herokuapp.com?limit=50&detail=no
• https://rlrss.herokuapp.com?limit=5&detail=1
• https://rlrss.herokuapp.com?limit=420&detail=off
• https://rlrss.herokuapp.com?limit=10&detail=true (default)

Note that since boolean parameters are parsed by PHP's filter_var(), most things that should generate true will generate true (eg. yes, 1, ON, ...) but stick to just true to play it safe. Likewise, same rule applies to false.

Output

Example output with details:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
  <channel>
    <title>Rocket League News</title>
    <description>RSS feed for Rocket League News</description>
    <link>https://rocketleague.com/news</link>
    <language>en-us</language>
    <copyright>2018 Psyonix Inc. All Rights Reserved</copyright>
    <generator>RLRSS — http://github.com/Qrivi/RLRSS</generator>
    <atom:link rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="https://rlrss.herokuapp.com"/>
    <image>
      <url>https://rlrss.herokuapp.com/favicon.png</url>
      <title>Rocket League News</title>
      <link>https://rocketleague.com/news</link>
    </image>
    <item>
      <title>Spring Fever Hits Rocket League on March 19</title>
      <link>https://rocketleague.com/news/spring-fever-hits-rocket-league-on-march-19/</link>
      <guid>https://rocketleague.com/news/spring-fever-hits-rocket-league-on-march-19/</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:10:49 +0100</pubDate>
      <author>support@psyonix.com (Devin Connors)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[(<p>The whole article here, as <b>rich</b>, <em>formatted</em> HTML.</p>)]]></description>
  </item>
  </channel>
</rss>

... and without — pretty straightforward:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
  <channel>
    <title>Rocket League News</title>
    <description>RSS feed for Rocket League News</description>
    <link>https://rocketleague.com/news</link>
    <language>en-us</language>
    <copyright>2018 Psyonix Inc. All Rights Reserved</copyright>
    <generator>RLRSS — http://github.com/Qrivi/RLRSS</generator>
    <atom:link rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="https://rlrss.herokuapp.com"/>
    <image>
      <url>https://rlrss.herokuapp.com/favicon.png</url>
      <title>Rocket League News</title>
      <link>https://rocketleague.com/news</link>
    </image>
    <item>
      <title>Spring Fever Hits Rocket League on March 19</title>
      <link>https://rocketleague.com/news/spring-fever-hits-rocket-league-on-march-19/</link>
      <guid>https://rocketleague.com/news/spring-fever-hits-rocket-league-on-march-19/</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:10:49 +0100</pubDate>
      <description>We’ve got a FEVER, and the only prescription is more Soccar!</description>
    </item>
  </channel>
</rss>

And in Leaf, my preferred RSS client:

Disclaimer

I'm not affiliated with Psyonix or Rocket League in any way apart from the fact that I love their game (pls bring cross platform inventories k thx bye). If I did anything anyone's not ok with here, please slide in my DMs before taking legal action.

⚽️🚙🚗 GG