Read RSS Feed

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

The Chilkat RSS class/component is freeware.

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require 'rubygems'
require 'chilkat'

rss = Chilkat::CkRss.new()

#  Download from the feed URL:
success = rss.DownloadRss("http://blog.chilkatsoft.com/?feed=rss2")
if (success != true)
    print rss.lastErrorText() + "\n"
    exit
end

#  Get the 1st channel.

rssChannel = rss.GetChannel(0)
if (rssChannel == nil )
    print "No channel found in RSS feed." + "\n"
    exit
end

#  Display the various pieces of information about the channel:
print "Title: " + rssChannel.getString("title") + "\n";
print "Link: " + rssChannel.getString("link") + "\n";
print "Description: " + rssChannel.getString("description") + "\n";

#  For each item in the channel, display the title, link,
#  publish date, and categories assigned to the post.
numItems = rssChannel.get_NumItems()

for i in 0 .. numItems - 1
    rssItem = rssChannel.GetItem(i)

    print "----" + "\n";
    print "Title: " + rssItem.getString("title") + "\n";
    print "Link: " + rssItem.getString("link") + "\n";
    print "pubDate: " + rssItem.getString("pubDate") + "\n";

    numCategories = rssItem.GetCount("category")

    if (numCategories > 0)
        for j in 0 .. numCategories - 1
            print "    category: " + rssItem.mGetString("category",j) + "\n";
        end

    end

end