paulnicholson / feedparser

A Java-based parser for RSS and Atom web feeds.

Simple Feed Parser

A Java-based parser for RSS and Atom web feeds.

Goals

• simple Java API

• compatible with Java and Android SDKs

• support for RSS 1.0/2.0 and Atom 1.0 feeds

• small resource footprint without external library dependencies

Usage

Add to your maven repo and include dependency in your pom.xml

Parsing an input stream for a feed requires the following statements:

FeedParser parser = FeedParserFactory.newParser();
Feed feed = parser.parse(feedStream);

The Feed data structure is a simple hierarchy of Feed, Item, and Element objects. Convenience methods are provided for common data values. Refer to the API docs at http://ernieyu.github.com/

To obtain an input stream from a URL, an application can use the following boilerplate code:

URL url = new URL(urlText);
HttpURLConnection httpConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
if (httpConnection.getResponseCode() == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
    InputStream feedStream = httpConnection.getInputStream();
    ...
}

Release history

0.1 Initial release