Today I thought I would just list a little tutorial on how to make an RSS feed reader in C#. The code is very simple…
public class RssFeedReader
{
public IEnumerable<Post> ReadFeed(string url)
{
var rssFeed = XDocument.Load(url);
var posts = from item in rssFeed.Descendants("item")
select new Post
{
Title = item.Element("title").Value,
Description = item.Element("description").Value,
PublishedDate = item.Element("pubDate").Value
};
return posts;
}
}
public class Post
{
public string PublishedDate;
public string Description;
public string Title;
}
An example of using this would be as follows…
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var posts = new RssFeedReader().ReadFeed(@"http://www.pwop.com/feed.aspx?show=dotnetrocks&filetype=master");
Console.WriteLine(posts.ToList().Count);
Console.ReadLine();
}
}