dmarcoux
Recommendations to parse Atom and RSS feeds?
Hey everyone,
I would like to parse Atom and RSS feeds in an application I am working on. I’ve looked at the existing packages on Hex to help me with this task and they all seem to be unmaintained. Sure, the world of Atom/RSS feeds isn’t changing much, so once you have a package working, it doesn’t have to change much either. I could fork one of those and fix warnings for the latest Elixir version.
From those packages, fast_rss seems to be the best choice, although I would rather not have to install the Rust compiler only to parse feeds.
I thought about using Elixir Ports to rely on a pre-compiled binary of a RSS/Atom parser from another programming language. This would certainly widen my options, but add complexity.
What would you recommend? Do you have experience with some of the Atom/RSS parsers?
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garrison
Last time I ran into this I didn’t like any of the options so I just wrote the parsers by hand using Saxy, which worked great.
I am not a fan of the NIF approach for stuff like this because the BEAM’s guarantees are actually very useful for parsing arbitrary internet content in a multitenant system. Throwing them away feels unwise. At some point I will probably write a new RSS library but it’s not a top priority at the moment.
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