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# RSS for Node [](http://travis-ci.org/dylang/node-rss)
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[](https://nodei.co/npm/rss/)
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> Fast and simple RSS generator/builder for Node projects.
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## Install
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$ npm install rss
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## Usage
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### Create a new feed
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```js
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var RSS = require('rss');
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var feed = new RSS(feedOptions);
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```
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#### `feedOptions`
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* `title` **string** Title of your site or feed
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* `description` _optional_ **string** A short description of the feed.
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* `generator` _optional_ **string** Feed generator.
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* `feed_url` **url string** Url to the rss feed.
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* `site_url` **url string** Url to the site that the feed is for.
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* `image_url` _optional_ **url string* Small image for feed readers to use.
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* `docs` _optional_ **url string** Url to documentation on this feed.
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* `author` **string** Who owns this feed.
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* `managingEditor` _optional_ **string** Who manages content in this feed.
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* `webMaster` _optional_ **string** Who manages feed availability and technical support.
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* `copyright` _optional_ **string** Copyright information for this feed.
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* `language` _optional_ **string** The language of the content of this feed.
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* `categories` _optional_ **array of strings** One or more categories this feed belongs to.
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* `pubDate` _optional_ **Date object or date string** The publication date for content in the feed
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* `ttl` _optional_ **integer** Number of minutes feed can be cached before refreshing from source.
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### Add items to a feed
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An item can be used for a blog entry, project update, log entry, etc. Your RSS feed
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an have any number of items. Most feeds use 20 or fewer items.
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```js
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feed.item(itemOptions);
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```
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#### itemOptions
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* `title` **string** Title of this particular item.
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* `description` **string** Content for the item. Can contain html but link and image urls must be absolute path including hostname.
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* `url` **url string** Url to the item. This could be a blog entry.
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* `guid` **unique string** A unique string feed readers use to know if an item is new or has already been seen.
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If you use a guid never change it. If you don't provide a guid then your item urls must
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be unique.
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* `categories` _optional_ **array of strings** If provided, each array item will be added as a category element
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* `author` _optional_ **string** If included it is the name of the item's creator.
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If not provided the item author will be the same as the feed author. This is typical
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except on multi-author blogs.
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* `date` **Date object or date string** The date and time of when the item was created. Feed
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readers use this to determine the sort order. Some readers will also use it to determine
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if the content should be presented as unread.
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#### Feed XML
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```js
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var xml = feed.xml(indent);
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```
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This returns the XML as a string.
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`indent` _optional_ **string** What to use as a tab. Defaults to no tabs (compressed).
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For example you can use `'\t'` for tab character, or `' '` for two-space tabs.
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## Example Usage
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```js
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var RSS = require('rss');
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/* lets create an rss feed */
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var feed = new RSS({
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title: 'title',
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description: 'description',
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feed_url: 'http://example.com/rss.xml',
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site_url: 'http://example.com',
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image_url: 'http://example.com/icon.png',
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docs: 'http://example.com/rss/docs.html',
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author: 'Dylan Greene',
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managingEditor: 'Dylan Greene',
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webMaster: 'Dylan Greene',
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copyright: '2013 Dylan Greene',
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language: 'en',
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categories: ['Category 1','Category 2','Category 3'],
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pubDate: 'May 20, 2012 04:00:00 GMT',
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ttl: '60'
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});
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/* loop over data and add to feed */
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feed.item({
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title: 'item title',
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description: 'use this for the content. It can include html.',
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url: 'http://example.com/article4?this&that', // link to the item
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guid: '1123', // optional - defaults to url
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categories: ['Category 1','Category 2','Category 3','Category 4'], // optional - array of item categories
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author: 'Guest Author', // optional - defaults to feed author property
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date: 'May 27, 2012' // any format that js Date can parse.
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enclosure : {url:'...', file:'path-to-file'} // optional
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});
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// cache the xml to send to clients
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var xml = feed.xml();
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```
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## Tests
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Tests included use Mocha. Use `npm test` to run the tests.
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$ npm test
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## Notes
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* You do not need to escape anything. This module will escape characters when necessary.
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* This module is very fast but you might as well cache the output of xml() and serve
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it until something changes.
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# History
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I started this module over two years ago (April 2011) because there weren't any Node modules
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for creating RSS. Besides these [25 modules](https://npmjs.org/browse/depended/rss)
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I would love to know what other projects are using it.
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# Contributing
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Contributions to the project are welcome. Feel free to fork and improve.
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I do my best accept pull requests in a timely manor, especially when tests and updated docs
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are included.
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# License
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(The MIT License)
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Copyright (c) 2011-2013 Dylan Greene <dylang@gmail.com>
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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
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a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
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'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
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without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
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distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
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permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
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the following conditions:
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
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included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
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EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
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MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
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CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
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TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
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SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. |