feedtojson

a simple API that parses RSS, Atom and JSON feeds using gofeed.

usage

GET https://feedtojson.vercel.app/your-feed-url-here

https://feedtojson.vercel.app/https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2Frss.xml

https://feedtojson.vercel.app/https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2Fatom.xml

https://feedtojson.vercel.app/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsonfeed.org%2Ffeed.json

RSS

https://xkcd.com/rss.xml

{
  "title": "xkcd.com",
  "description": "xkcd.com: A webcomic of romance and math humor.",
  "link": "https://xkcd.com/",
  "links": [
    "https://xkcd.com/"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "items": [...],
  "feedType": "rss",
  "feedVersion": "2.0"
}

Atom

https://xkcd.com/atom.xml

{
  "title": "xkcd.com",
  "link": "https://xkcd.com/",
  "links": [
    "https://xkcd.com/"
  ],
  "updated": "2024-02-09T00:00:00Z",
  "updatedParsed": "2024-02-09T00:00:00Z",
  "language": "en",
  "items": [...],
  "feedType": "atom",
  "feedVersion": "1.0"
}

JSON

https://www.jsonfeed.org/feed.json

{
  "title": "JSON Feed",
  "link": "https://www.jsonfeed.org/",
  "feedLink": "https://www.jsonfeed.org/feed.json",
  "links": [
    "https://www.jsonfeed.org/",
    "https://www.jsonfeed.org/feed.json"
  ],
  "published": "2020-08-07T11:44:36-05:00",
  "publishedParsed": "2020-08-07T11:44:36-05:00",
  "image": {
    "url": "https://micro.blog/jsonfeed/avatar.jpg"
  },
  "items": [...],
  "feedType": "json",
  "feedVersion": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1"
}

why

i wanted to add my blog posts to my website, and after trying three different packages from npm, none of them worked. additionally, my blog was giving me cors issues although it shouldn't because of my netlify configuration. i then thought it'd be a pretty quick and easy challenge to build a simple Go function on Vercel that'd parse my feed as JSON.

how

it uses gofeed, which is a powerful and flexible Go library designed for parsing RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds. Vercel handles the routing using my custom configuration in vercel.json.

license

this project is licensed under the MIT License.

made by khaleel