SwiftRSS

SwiftRSS is a simple RSS parser written in Swift.

Todo

• Basic RSS Support
• Handle internet dates (RFC822 & RFC3339)
• Tests with several RSS feeds (Swift official blog, Wordpress, Tumblr)
• Handle Feed headers
• NSCoder compatibility
• Handle Comment link, feed and count (specific to Wordpress)
• Add images helper (an array of images URL like for BlockRSSParser)
• Continuous integration
• Cocoapods spec (waiting for Cocoapods Swift support)

Installation

The project will be available as a Pod as soon as Cocoapods will release the Swift support.

For now you can install this module manualy : Copy the content of the SwiftRSS folder and add it to your project.

You can also use this project as Git submodule.

Usage

This library is pretty simple to use. All you need to do is to create a simple NSURLRequest with the URL of your feed and then use the parseFeedForRequest() method with the callback closure to be able to use your items or handle errors properly.

let request: NSURLRequest = NSURLRequest(URL: NSURL(string: http://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/news.rss))

RSSParser.parseFeedForRequest(request, callback: { (feed, error) -> Void in
  NSLog("Feed for : \(feed.title)")
  NSLog("contains : \(feed.items)")
})

As results you get a RSSFeed object which contain a array of RSSItems or, if something wrong happen the NSError which will give you the error from the network call or the parsing process.

How to contribute

If you need help on how to setup this project or how to use it, please use Stack Overflow.

If you notice a bug, please open an issue with all the details and code to reproduce this issue.

If you want to contribute to the project, fix something or add a feature please fork this project, work in a seperate branch, and send a pull request. Also please consider the following section about custom feeds and specific usecases

Custom feeds and specific usecases

This project is made to be a really simple RSS Parser for a basic news feed. You may need to parse more nodes if you want to use it with a custom feed (iTunes feed for instance). With BlockRSSParser I used to say that this kind of usage isn't really related to the originial philosophy of the project.

Now I think the best thing to do is to move these special use case to seperate branches.

If you want to adapt this project to a specific usecase, please fork the project, create a new branch named explicitly and send a pull request.

Credits

Maintainers :

• Thibaut Le Levier

Code review:

• Ludovic Ollagnier

Special thanks to :

• Michael Waterfall author of the MWFeedParser where a lot of logic on the Date formatters come from

Licence

SwiftRSS is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.