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Feed Parser is a free plugin for ExpressionEngine 2 to fetch and read XML-based feeds and API results and display the contents in your templates.

The Magpie RSS/ATOM Parser plugin that comes with EE allows you to read RSS and ATOM files; Feed Parser takes the potential a bit further:

Features include:

• It can read any XML format not just RSS and ATOM, so you can use it to retrieve more types of data including API responses
• You can access any element or attribute within the XML. All the data within the XML can be displayed or used in conditional ‘if’ statements
• Feeds are cached and you can set how frequently a new file should be fetched
• Common EE variables {switch}, {count}, {total_results} are available
• Standard date formatting can be used
• Parameters include: offset=, limit=
• A debug mode will help you set up the feed for the first time, alerting you of any issues and giving you a list of available parameters

Examples

A simple RSS feed

{exp:ajw_feedparser 
    url="http://brandnewbox.co.uk/v8/rss"
    cache_refresh="60"
    limit="8"
}
<h3 class="title">{title}</h3>
{description}
{/exp:ajw_feedparser}

Flickr

Display images and descriptions from your flickr RSS feed. This example demonstrates how to access other XML elements and attributes, and using the date formatting feature.

{exp:ajw_feedparser 
    url="http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=25509357@N00&lang=en-us&format=rss_200"
    cache_refresh="60"
    limit="5"
}
<h3 class="title">{count}/{total_results}: {title}</h3>
<h4>Tags: {media:category}</h4>
{description}
<p>{media:thumbnail@url}</p>
<p>Posted by <em>{author}</em> on {dc:date.Taken format='%l, %F %j%S, %Y at %g:%i %A'}</p>
{/exp:ajw_feedparser} 

Tumblr

Show entries from your tumblr blog. You can use conditionals to display the data depending on the type.

{exp:ajw_feedparser 
    url="http://the-fan.tumblr.com/api/read"
    itempath="/tumblr/posts/post"
    cache_refresh="60"
}
<h3 class="title">Post from {@date-gmt}</h3>
{if @type == "photo"}<p><img src="{photo-url#4}"/></p>{/if}
{if @type == "quote"}<blockquote><p>{quote-text}</p></blockquote>{/if}
{if @type == "video"}<p>{video-source}</p>{/if}
{if @type == "link"}<p><a href="{link-url}">{link-text}</a></p>{/if}
<p><a href="{@url}">{@url}</a></p>
{/exp:ajw_feedparser} 

Feed Parser Links

• Feed Parser product page

This entry was created December 2, 2010, 1:32 pm.
This entry was last updated April 20, 2012, 1:06 am.

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