Forum: Ruby RSS standard lib?

Hi, all...

I used to use "feedtools" (now defunct) and I am trying to switch over
to the RSS stdlib.

Can anyone tell me why this doesn't work? (Error below)

Thanks,
Hal


require 'rss'
require 'open-uri'

URL = "http://feeds.space.com/SpacecomUniversalSpacePodcast"

rss = open(URL).read
feed = RSS::Parser.parse(rss)
puts "Description: #{feed.title}"
feed.items.each.with_index {|item,i| puts "#{i+1}. #{item.title}" }


Error is:

/Users/Hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rss/2.0.rb:53:in
`rescue in pubDate=': value <Thu, 05 July 2007 4:00:00 GMT> of tag
<pubDate> is not available. (RSS::NotAvailableValueError)
from 
/Users/Hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rss/2.0.rb:50:in
`pubDate='
from
/Users/Hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rss/parser.rb:456:in
`block in start_get_text_element'
from
/Users/Hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rss/parser.rb:358:in
`call'
from
/Users/Hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rss/parser.rb:358:in
`tag_end'
from
/Users/Hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rexml/parsers/streamparser.rb:26:in
`parse'
from
/Users/Hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rexml/document.rb:243:in
`parse_stream'
from
/Users/Hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rss/rexmlparser.rb:22:in
`_parse'
from
/Users/Hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rss/parser.rb:164:in
`parse'
from
/Users/Hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rss/parser.rb:79:in
`parse'

Hi,

In <CACrXA6XftYNTf1NkybyBq-f0xHwTUUNrZKqx-gp5NDmMOihhGg@mail.gmail.com>
  "RSS standard lib?" on Wed, 20 Mar 2013 06:47:35 +0900,
  Hal Fulton <rubyhacker@gmail.com> wrote:

> I used to use "feedtools" (now defunct) and I am trying to switch over
> to the RSS stdlib.
>
> Can anyone tell me why this doesn't work? (Error below)
...
> require 'rss'
> require 'open-uri'
>
> URL = "http://feeds.space.com/SpacecomUniversalSpacePodcast"
>
> rss = open(URL).read
> feed = RSS::Parser.parse(rss)
> puts "Description: #{feed.title}"
> feed.items.each.with_index {|item,i| puts "#{i+1}. #{item.title}" }

Try the following:

  require 'rss'
  require 'open-uri'

  URL = "http://feeds.space.com/SpacecomUniversalSpacePodcast"

  rss = open(URL).read
  feed = RSS::Parser.parse(rss, false)
  puts "Description: #{feed.channel.title}"
  feed.items.each.with_index {|item,i| puts "#{i+1}. #{item.title}" }

Points:

  * Add false argument to RSS::Parser.parse as the second argument.
    It means "the parser doesn't validate value".
  * Change "feed.title" to "feed.channel.title".
    /rss/channel/title is the title of the feed in RSS 2.0.


Thanks,