Are there CPAN modules that will help me parse an RSS or ATOM feed in Perl?

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mjy 2008-12-27 18:25:57

Beware of at least http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=libxml-feedpp-perl;dist=unstable but it's the best thats out there, AFAIK.

derobert 2008-12-28 13:54:52

+8 A:

Almost any time that you ask "How can I do X in Perl?", the answer is to look at CPAN Search to find the module that does it.

To download from the web, the LWP family of modules can help you. To parse the documents, try something with Feed, RSS, or Atom in the name.

brian d foy 2008-12-27 19:56:50

Brian, this isn't as helpful as you might hope in this case: searching for 'RSS' and a few other terms tends to get you writers, plugins for other tools and old, dead modules and any signal in there is drowned out by noise.

ijw 2009-06-15 12:02:32

@ijw: spend more than 3 minutes trying.

brian d foy 2009-06-15 16:26:07

+4 A:

Both XML::RSS and XML::Atom exist. Be warned -- XML::Atom does not seem to be actively maintained and reportedly has bugs. But the basics should be enough to get you going.

To fetch the feeds LWP::Simple is a good choice.

2008-12-27 20:16:16

XML::RSS is an RSS generator, not a reader.

ijw 2009-06-15 12:00:24

XML::RSS is primarily used to generate RSS files but it also has `parse()` methods to read RSS.

krock 2010-07-24 05:23:52

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I've found that XML::Feed does a much better job of dealing with the errors that you are going to get if you're trying to parse arbitrary feeds that you don't control the generation of.

genehack 2009-06-23 14:01:55

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