Alloy - RSS Feed Parser

RSS feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically. A standardized XML file format allows the information to be published once and viewed by many different programs. They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favorite websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place.

I am creating a simple RSS Reader which get the rss feed from given url and parse the xml data.

And return array of objects which is easy to manipulate in your titanium application.

I am creating sample project in alloy framework.

Download source code from github RSS-Feed-Reader

You can find rss.js  file in /lib directory.

usage of this file is,

 
var rss = require('rss');
var RSS_URL = OS_MOBILEWEB ? '/goirss.xml' : 'http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/?service=rss';
// open detail window
function openDetail(e) {
 $.trigger('detail', e);
}

// Refresh table data from remote RSS feed
function refreshRss() {
 rss.loadRssFeed(RSS_URL, {
  success : function(data) {
   var rows = [];
   _.each(data, function(item) {
    rows.push(Alloy.createController('row', {
     articleUrl : item.link,
     title : item.title,
     date : item.pubDate,
     description : item.description
    }).getView());
   });
   $.table.setData(rows);
  }
 });
}

// do initial load of RSS
refreshRss(); 

Thank you.