feedfinder

feedfinder

feedfinder is a library for finding RSS and Atom feeds on a website.

Usage

1. Install the package:

go get github.com/0x2E/feedfinder

1. Import the package:

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"

	"github.com/0x2E/feedfinder"
)

func main() {
	link := "https://github.com/golang/go"

	feeds, err := feedfinder.Find(context.Background(), link, nil)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	for _, feed := range feeds {
		fmt.Printf("title: %s\tlink: %s\n", feed.Title, feed.Link)
	}
}

// Output:
// title: golang/go commits        link: https://github.com/golang/go/commits.atom
// title: golang/go releases       link: https://github.com/golang/go/releases.atom
// title: golang/go tags   link: https://github.com/golang/go/tags.atom
// title: golang/go wiki   link: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki.atom

How it works

It tries to find feeds in the following ways:

Parsing HTML:

• <link> with type application/rss+xml, application/atom+xml, application/json, application/feed+json
• <a> containing the word rss

Well-known paths:

• atom.xml, feed.xml, rss.xml, index.xml
• atom.json, feed.json, rss.json, index.json
• feed/, rss/

Third party services:

• GitHub: official rules
• Reddit: official wiki
• YouTube: ref

Credits

• Parsing feed with gofeed