Build a Feed Reader in 26 Lines of Ruby

By Peter Cooper — March 23rd, 2007 — 3 Comments

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Ever thought that parsing feeds was a complex task? Not in Ruby! Using the Feed Normalizer library (a wrapper for other feed processing libraries), Ilya Grigorik demonstrates how you can create a complete RSS / Atom feed aggregator in 26 lines of code, including renderer!

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3 Comment Responses to “Build a Feed Reader in 26 Lines of Ruby”

#1
GregH Says:
March 23rd, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Hi - do you know if there is a library that makes parsing specific areas of a web-page for changes simpler? (i.e. only in HTML, no specific XML or RSS format)
Greg
#2
Peter Cooper Says:
March 24th, 2007 at 1:13 am
Yes. Scrubyt.
#3
Sandro Says:
March 26th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
Amazing !! Why we don't create a sort of 'write-a-specific-app-in-the-less-line-of-codes-you-can' contest ?? Could be fun !