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Day: 10 March 2016

  • Parse RSS feed with Google feed api

    This is a fully commented method parsing a mediarss feed using the now deprecated Google Feed api

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    http://www.abc.net.au/landline/test/news-rss/

    <html>
    <head>
    <!–load the google javascript api – now depricated–>
    <script type=”text/javascript” src=”https://www.google.com/jsapi”></script>
    <script type=”text/javascript”>

    google.load(“feeds”, “1”);

    function initialize() {
    //load the rss feed
    var feed = new google.feeds.Feed(“http://www.abc.net.au/news/feed/7234284/rss.xml”);
    //set the number of entreies you want from the feed
    feed.setNumEntries(10);
    //load the results
    feed.load(function(result) {
    if (!result.error) {
    //look for the container div
    var container = document.getElementById(“feed”);
    //inside the container div creat a ul element
    var ul = document.createElement(“ul”);
    for (var i = 0; i < result.feed.entries.length; i++) {
    var entry = result.feed.entries[i];
    var li = document.createElement(‘li’);
    //for each item, appent an li element to the ul
    ul.appendChild(li);
    //creat and anchor element
    var a = document.createElement(‘a’);
    //give the anchor element the href attribute and the value of the entry link
    a.setAttribute(“href”, (entry.link));
    //append that anchor as a child of the li element
    li.appendChild(a);
    //append the entry title as a chiled of the anchor tag
    a.appendChild(document.createTextNode(entry.title));
    //finish by ending the ul tag inside the container
    container.appendChild(ul);
    }
    }
    });
    }
    google.setOnLoadCallback(initialize);

    </script>
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id=”feed”></div>
    </body>
    </html>