⚠️ WARNING: This package does not work and shouldn't be used anymore, since Yahoo! shut down YQL. Please, consider using rss-parser.

nanofeed

Tiny RSS feed parser client built in JavaScript.

No library dependencies.
Asynchronous requests.
Multiple feeds sources.
Multiple independent successive calls.
Uses Yahoo! YQL Plataform.
Widely supported by browsers.

WARNING

nanofeed is a frontend library who relies on Yahoo Query API to fetch RSS content. It's currently not working since Yahoo shutted down the service. Need some reworking for use other services and allowing user to change it.

Installation

Recommended using CDN:

<script src="https://www.jsdelivr.com/package/npm/nanofeed@1/dist/nanofeed.min.js"></script>

or package manager:

$ yarn add nanofeed
$ pnpm i -D nanofeed

Examples

// minimal
nanofeed.fetch(url, function(items) {
  console.log(items)
})

// Multiple feed sources
nanofeed.fetch([socialFeedUrl, newsFeedUrl], addFeedItems)

// Successive calls
nanofeed
  .fetch([socialFeedUrl, newsFeedUrl], addFeedItems)
  .fetch(weatherFeedUrl, addWeatherFeedItems)

// Callback function receive array of items retrieved from the feed
function callback(items) {
  items.forEach(function(x) {
    var newItemHtml = '<li>' + items.title + ' - ' + item.date + '</li>'
    document.getElementById('feed').innerHTML += newItemHtml
  })
}

// Setting options for a function call
nanofeed.fetch(
  url,
  {
    fields: ['title', 'date'],
    qty: 15
  },
  callback
)

// or globally for all function calls
nanofeed.options = {
  fields: ['title', 'date'],
  qty: 15
}
nanofeed.fetch(url, callback)
nanofeed.fetch(weatherFeedUrl, addWeatherFeedItems)

Documentation

nanofeed.fetch(feed_url, [options,] success_callback)

parameter	type	required	description
feed_url	string | string array	yes	Absolute URL(s) of the RSS feed(s).
options	object	no	Options about format of result returned from feed sources.
success_callback	function(data)	yes	Callback function called on success.

Options parameters

attribute	type	default	accepts	description
fields	string array	['title', 'link']	title, link, date, description	Fields to be returned from feed source(s).
qty	integer	5	positive integers (limited by feed source or Yahoo Feed API)	Quantity of feed entries to return.

Callback function called on success:

Returns as parameter the list of feed entries ordered by most recent publish date. Array of object:

attribute	type
title	string
link	string
pubDate	date
description	string

For further documentation see specifications.

Specification & Tests

• in project:
  • spec/specs.js (source code)
  • spec/specRunner.html (HTML UI)
• online:
  • https://andretf.github.io/nanofeed/spec
  • https://andretf.github.io/nanofeed/spec/specs.js

Detailed code coverage is available at https://andretf.github.io/nanofeed/spec/coverage.

Authoring

• Andre Figueiredo <andretf.inf@gmail.com>