feedparser

Erlang port for Mark Pilgrim's Universal Feed Parser.

Dependencies

rebar, python (>= 2.5), virtualenv, easy_install

Build

$ rebar get-deps && rebar compile

Usage

$ erl -pa ebin/ -pa deps/poolboy/ebin/ -feedparser pool_size 1
Erlang R14B04 (erts-5.8.5) [source] [smp:64:64] [rq:64] [async-threads:0] [kernel-poll:false]

Eshell V5.8.5  (abort with ^G)
1> inets:start().
ok
2> {ok, {_, _, Data}} = httpc:request(get, {"http://feedparser.org/docs/examples/atom10.xml", []}, [], [{body_format,binary}]).
{ok,{{"HTTP/1.1",200,"OK"}, [],
     <<"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n<feed xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom\" xml:base=\"http:"...>>}}
3> application:start(feedparser).
ok
4> feedparser:parse(Data).
{ok,[{feed,[{updated,"2005-11-09T11:56:34Z"},
            {subtitle,"For documentation <em>only</em>"}, ...]},
     {encoding,"utf-8"},
     {version,"atom10"},
     {namespaces,[{'',"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"},
                  {xhtml,"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"}]},
     {entries,[[{updated,"2005-11-09T11:56:34Z"},
                {links,[...]},
                {title,"First entry title"},
                {authors,[[{href,"http://diveintomark.org/"},
                           {name,"Mark Pilgrim"},
                           {email,"mark@example.org"}]]},
                {summary,"Watch out for nasty tricks"},
                {content,[...]},
                {href,"http://example.org/sam/"}, ...
     ]]}]}