Feeds Crawler

This gem allows to crawl news articles from RSS feeds. It realizes parallel execution for better performance and sanitize collected text from unnecessary HTML tags.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'feeds-crawler'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install feeds-crawler

Usage

require 'feeds_crawler'

FeedsCrawler.crawl('rss_feed_url')
# => ["Article 1", "Article 2", "Article 3"]

It accepts as many RSS feeds as you want:

my_favorite_rss_feeds = %w[
  first_rss_feed
  second_rss_feed
]

FeedsCrawler.crawl(my_favorite_rss_feeds)
# => ["Article from feed #1", "Article from feed #2"]

or:

FeedsCrawler.crawl('first_rss_feed_url', 'second_rss_feed_url')
# => ["Article from feed #1", "Article from feed #2"]

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/atatarenko/feeds-crawler.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.