Read RSS Feed

Sample code showing how to read an RSS feed and display the contents.

The Chilkat RSS class/component is freeware.

Download Chilkat XML ActiveX

Note: The Chilkat XML ActiveX also includes the Chilkat RSS and Atom components.

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
set rss = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Rss")

'  Download from the feed URL:
success = rss.DownloadRss("http://blog.chilkatsoft.com/?feed=rss2")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write rss.LastErrorText & "<br>"

End If

'  Get the 1st channel.

Set rssChannel = rss.GetChannel(0)
If (rssChannel Is Nothing ) Then
    Response.Write "No channel found in RSS feed." & "<br>"

End If

'  Display the various pieces of information about the channel:
Response.Write Server.HTMLEncode( "Title: " _
     & rssChannel.GetString("title")) & "<br>"
Response.Write Server.HTMLEncode( "Link: " _
     & rssChannel.GetString("link")) & "<br>"
Response.Write Server.HTMLEncode( "Description: " _
     & rssChannel.GetString("description")) & "<br>"

'  For each item in the channel, display the title, link,
'  publish date, and categories assigned to the post.
numItems = rssChannel.NumItems

For i = 0 To numItems - 1
    Set rssItem = rssChannel.GetItem(i)

    Response.Write Server.HTMLEncode( "----") & "<br>"
    Response.Write Server.HTMLEncode( "Title: " _
         & rssItem.GetString("title")) & "<br>"
    Response.Write Server.HTMLEncode( "Link: " _
         & rssItem.GetString("link")) & "<br>"
    Response.Write Server.HTMLEncode( "pubDate: " _
         & rssItem.GetString("pubDate")) & "<br>"

    numCategories = rssItem.GetCount("category")

    If (numCategories > 0) Then
        For j = 0 To numCategories - 1
            Response.Write Server.HTMLEncode( "    category: " _
                 & rssItem.MGetString("category",j)) & "<br>"
        Next

    End If

Next


%>
</body>
</html>

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