feed-mixer

feed-mixer is a module which transforms multiple rss/atom feeds into a single rss/atom feed.

It can be a single method use module or it can poll data every so often.

Here is an example of it being used in the context of a server.

npm install feed-mixer

usage

var FeedMixer = require('feed-mixer');

var mixer = new FeedMixer({
    "title": "My aggregate feed",
    "description": "This feed is made up of many.",
    "link": "http://example.com",
    "output": "rss-2.0",
    "feeds": [
        "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=vsauce",
        "https://twitrss.me/twitter_user_to_rss/?user=tweetsauce"
    ]
});

// Pattern A

mixer.refresh().then(function (feed) {
    require('fs').writeFileSync("output.rss", feed);
});

// OR Pattern B

mixer.on('refreshComplete', function (feed) {
    require('fs').writeFileSync("output.rss", feed);
});

mixer.refresh();

API

FeedMixer(config)

Returns a FeedMixer object

var mixer = new FeedMixer({
    "title": "My aggregate feed",
    "description": "This feed is made up of many.",
    "link": "http://example.com",
    "output": "rss-2.0",
    "update": "00:30:00",
    "feeds": [
        "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=vsauce",
        "https://twitrss.me/twitter_user_to_rss/?user=tweetsauce"
    ]
})

FeedMixer(configSource)

Returns a FeedMixer object with a config specified to JSON source.

var mixer = new FeedMixer('./config.json')

FeedMixer.refresh()

Returns a promise of which the callback argument is a string of the aggregate feed.

This function works by requesting all the feeds specified in the url and then aggregating them into one feed.

mixer.refresh().then(function (feed) {
    require('fs').writeFileSync('aggregate.rss', feed);
});

FeedMixer.aggregate

Returns a traversable object of the aggregate feed in the format of the feed module.

mixer.aggregate.length

FeedMixer.getFeed(feedFormatType)

Returns a string version of the aggregate feed.

feedFormatType is either "rss-2.0" or "atom-1.0". Defaults to the config output type.

var feedString = mixer.getFeed('atom-1.0');

FeedMixer.end()

FeedMixer.finish()

Stop the automatic polling/refreshing of the aggregate feed.

mixer.end();

config options

Config is either supplied in the constructor argument or as a resource string to a JSON file.

{
    name:        Your aggregate feed name
    description: Your aggregate feed description
    link:        Your aggregate feed url
    output:      Your aggregate feed in "rss-2.0" or "atom-1.0" format
    update:      (Optional) How often to refresh (hh:mm:ss format)
}

Events

FeedMixer.events.on('refreshStart')

Event called when the refresh() method is called. Argument passed is the Date of refresh.

mixer.events.on('refreshStart', function (when) {
    console.log('Started fetching/aggregating at ', when);
});

FeedMixer.events.on('refreshCompleted')

Event called when aggregate feed is ready and FeedMixer.aggregate property is updated.

Argument passed is the string of the aggregate feed in either the rss or atom format.

var latestFeedVersion;

mixer.events.on('refreshComplete', function (feed) {
    latestFeedVersion = feed;
});