Not getting full RSS tree

[b-w-a]

HI there - trying to get this:

result <- tidyfeed(feed = "https://www.fandango.com/rss/moviesnearme_90025.rss")

But I only get the movie theatre locations, not the movies playing at that location. Any suggestions?

[RobertMyles]

Hi,

That's a weird one, it should come back with the 'description' field. I'm getting errors regardless, so I need to do some work on the package, I've been too busy to come back to it lately. I'm going to close this because there are some bigger problems that need to be fixed and it'll probably get fixed with those, in the next version. Thanks for letting me know about the problem.

[RobertMyles]

I'm using xml2::xml_find_all(channel, "item") to find each individual item in the RSS feed, which works for most of the feeds I've seen. And doesn't work for this one.

I'd suggest taking a low-level look at it, using xml2. This will show you the details, i.e. the fact that the movies don't come back:

feed <- "https://www.fandango.com/rss/moviesnearme_90025.rss"
 doc <- try(httr::GET(feed), silent = TRUE)
 doc <- doc %>% xml2::read_xml()
channel <- xml2::xml_find_all(doc, "channel")
site <- xml2::xml_find_all(channel, "item")
st <- xml2::as_list(site)

Let me know if you figure it out!