Easy to use, simple, Syndication feed reader (Atom / RSS).
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$ dotnet add package SimpleFeedReaderReadme
SimpleFeedReader
Easy to use, simple, Syndication feed reader (Atom / RSS). Available as Nuget Package.
Usage
var reader = new FeedReader();
var items = await reader.RetrieveFeedAsync("http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/International.xml");
foreach (var i in items)
Console.WriteLine($"{i.Date.ToString("g")}\t{i.Title}");
Output:
4/16/2014 4:27 AM Growth Rose 7.4% in First Quarter, China Reports
4/16/2014 12:29 AM Milan Court Gives Berlusconi a Year of Community Service
4/15/2014 12:34 PM Desalination Plant Said to Be Planned for Thirsty Beijing
4/15/2014 7:24 PM After Prank by Dutch Girl on Twitter, Real Trouble
4/15/2014 4:33 PM Afghanistan Says NATO Airstrike in East Killed Civilians
4/16/2014 12:49 AM Iran Escalates Dispute Over U.N. Envoy
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Notes
By default the FeedReader suppresses exceptions (since feeds tend to go down occasionally, they contain invalid XML from time-to-time and have all other sorts of problems). However, you can tell the FeedReader to throw exceptions simply by setting the throwOnError argument of the FeedReader's constructor to true.
The FeedReader also accepts an optional FeedNormalizer (needs to implement the IFeedItemNormalizer interface). This "normalizer" can transform or otherwise affect the way SyndicationItems are transformed into FeedItems. The FeedItem is the basic object retrieved from feeds and, for simplicity, contains only a few simple properties and methods. It has , , , , , , and properties and that's about it. The default strips and decodes any HTML in the , , to (try to) reliably return plain text only. The property will be populated with whatever the 's latest date is: the or .
