From 1100562e29f6476448b656dbddd4cf22505523f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mitja Felicijan Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:59:14 +0100 Subject: Move back to JBMAFP --- content/notes/2023-05-23-parse-rss-with-lua.md | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/notes/2023-05-23-parse-rss-with-lua.md (limited to 'content/notes/2023-05-23-parse-rss-with-lua.md') diff --git a/content/notes/2023-05-23-parse-rss-with-lua.md b/content/notes/2023-05-23-parse-rss-with-lua.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7802c31 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/notes/2023-05-23-parse-rss-with-lua.md @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +--- +title: Parse RSS feeds with Lua +url: /parse-rss-with-lua.html +date: 2023-05-23T12:00:00+02:00 +type: note +draft: false +--- + +Example of parsing RSS feeds with Lua. Before running the script install: + +- feedparser with `luarocks install feedparser` +- luasocket with `luarocks install luasocket` + +```lua +local http = require("socket.http") +local feedparser = require("feedparser") + +local feed_url = "https://mitjafelicijan.com/index.xml" + +local response, status, _ = http.request(feed_url) +if status == 200 then + local parsed = feedparser.parse(response) + + -- Print out feed details. + print("> Title ", parsed.feed.title) + print("> Author ", parsed.feed.author) + print("> ID ", parsed.feed.id) + print("> Entries ", #parsed.entries) + + for _, item in ipairs(parsed.entries) do + print("GUID ", item.guid) + print("Title ", item.title) + print("Link ", item.link) + print("Summary ", item.summary) + end +else + print("! Request failed. Status:", status) +end +``` -- cgit v1.2.3