RSS Parser - whats the best one out there?

[purbeast0]

I don't want to write an RSS parser myself because I'm sure there are already a bunch out there that do the job much better than I could write up quickly, and I was just wondering what people recommend. I'm going to be parsing RSS files and storing stuff to a DB then displaying information from the DB after it's been written to the DB.

One I came accross that seems straight forward is MagpieRSS. Are there any that you would recommend? Thanks!

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

I know you're looking for recommendations, which I don't have, but have you checked out hotscripts.com?

 

[Gunslinger08]

Originally posted by: purbeast0
I don't want to write an RSS parser myself because I'm sure there are already a bunch out there that do the job much better than I could write up quickly, and I was just wondering what people recommend. I'm going to be parsing RSS files and storing stuff to a DB then displaying information from the DB after it's been written to the DB.

One I came accross that seems straight forward is MagpieRSS. Are there any that you would recommend? Thanks!

The problem with a lot of those RSS parsers is that they just display the description in all it's glory, and a lot of (incredibly retarded) RSS feeds are including HTML, images, tables, etc. This can pretty much destroy your page layout if you don't strip out the unnecessary stuff.

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: joshsquall

Originally posted by: purbeast0
I don't want to write an RSS parser myself because I'm sure there are already a bunch out there that do the job much better than I could write up quickly, and I was just wondering what people recommend. I'm going to be parsing RSS files and storing stuff to a DB then displaying information from the DB after it's been written to the DB.

One I came accross that seems straight forward is MagpieRSS. Are there any that you would recommend? Thanks!

The problem with a lot of those RSS parsers is that they just display the description in all it's glory, and a lot of (incredibly retarded) RSS feeds are including HTML, images, tables, etc. This can pretty much destroy your page layout if you don't strip out the unnecessary stuff.

well that magpie one seems to just basically make a data structure of all of the RSS tags and stuff. and as long as I know how the RSS file is structured when building this data structure, I think I would be okay ... right?

i'm not a web guy, I'm C++ so I just kinda check out this web stuff every now and then. if I was parsing say, 2 or 3 rss files and displaying them, then as long as i knew when each one was being read, I could handle each one in a different manner, right?

and AgaBoogaBoo ... I'll check that out, thanks.