Podcast RSS for Node

Fast and simple Podcast RSS generator/builder for Node projects. Supports enclosures and GeoRSS.

An updated version of node-podcast

Install

$ npm install podcast2

Usage

Create a new feed

var Podcast = require('podcast2');

var feed = new Podcast(feedOptions);

`feedOptions`

title string Title of your site or feed
description optional string A short description of the feed.
generator optional string Feed generator.
feed_url url string Url to the rss feed.
site_url url string Url to the site that the feed is for.
image_url optional *url string Small image for feed readers to use.
docs optional url string Url to documentation on this feed.
author string Who owns this feed.
managingEditor optional string Who manages content in this feed.
webMaster optional string Who manages feed availability and technical support.
copyright optional string Copyright information for this feed.
language optional string The language of the content of this feed.
categories optional array of strings One or more categories this feed belongs to.
pubDate optional Date object or date string The publication date for content in the feed
ttl optional integer Number of minutes feed can be cached before refreshing from source.
itunesAuthor optional string (iTunes specific) author of the podcast
itunesSubtitle optional string (iTunes specific) subtitle for iTunes listing
itunesSummary optional string (iTunes specific) summary for iTunes listing
itunesOwner optional object (iTunes specific) owner of the podcast ( {name:String, email:String} )
itunesExplicit optional boolean (iTunes specific) specifies if the podcast contains explicit content
itunesCategory optional array of objects (iTunes specific) Categories for iTunes ( [{text:String, subcats:[{text:String, subcats:Array}]}] )
itunesImage optional string (iTunes specific) link to an image for the podcast

Add items to a feed

An item can be used for a blog entry, project update, log entry, etc. Your RSS feed an have any number of items. Most feeds use 20 or fewer items.

feed.item(itemOptions);

itemOptions

title string Title of this particular item.
description string Content for the item. Can contain html but link and image urls must be absolute path including hostname.
url url string Url to the item. This could be a blog entry.
guid unique string A unique string feed readers use to know if an item is new or has already been seen. If you use a guid never change it. If you don't provide a guid then your item urls must be unique.
categories optional array of strings If provided, each array item will be added as a category element
author optional string If included it is the name of the item's creator. If not provided the item author will be the same as the feed author. This is typical except on multi-author blogs.
date Date object or date string The date and time of when the item was created. Feed readers use this to determine the sort order. Some readers will also use it to determine if the content should be presented as unread.
lat optional number The latitude coordinate of the item.
long optional number The longitude coordinate of the item.
enclosure optional object Attach a multimedia file to this item.
- url string Url to the related file.
- file optional string Path to the related file on the filesystem. Used to fill out size and mime information.
- size optional number Number of bytes in the file. The length field will defualt to 0 if the size or file fields have not been set.
- mime optional string Mime type of the file. Will be guessed from the url if this parameter is not set.
itunesAuthor optional string (iTunes specific) author of the podcast
itunesExplicit optional boolean (iTunes specific) specifies if the podcast contains explicit content
itunesSubtitle optional string (iTunes specific) subtitle for iTunes listing
itunesSummary optional string (iTunes specific) summary for iTunes listing
itunesDuration optional number (iTunes specific) duration of the podcast item in seconds
itunesKeywords optional array of string (iTunes specific) keywords of the podcast
itunesImage optional string (iTunes specific) link to an image for the item

Feed XML

var xml = feed.xml(indent);

This returns the XML as a string.

indent optional string What to use as a tab. Defaults to no tabs (compressed). For example you can use '\t' for tab character, or ' ' for one-space tabs.

Example Usage

var Podcast = require('podcast2');

/* lets create an rss feed */
var feed = new Podcast({
    title: 'title',
    description: 'description',
    feed_url: 'http://example.com/rss.xml',
    site_url: 'http://example.com',
    image_url: 'http://example.com/icon.png',
    docs: 'http://example.com/rss/docs.html',
    author: 'Joseph Dykstra',
    managingEditor: 'Joseph Dykstra',
    webMaster: 'Joseph Dykstra',
    copyright: '2013 Joseph Dykstra',
    language: 'en',
    categories: ['Category 1','Category 2','Category 3'],
    pubDate: 'May 20, 2012 04:00:00 GMT',
    ttl: '60',
    itunesAuthor: 'Joseph Dykstra',
    itunesSubtitle: 'I am a sub title',
    itunesSummary: 'I am a summary',
    itunesOwner: { name: 'Joseph Dykstra', email:'example@example.com' },
    itunesExplicit: false,
    itunesCategory: {
        "text": "Entertainment",
        "subcats": [{
          "text": "Television"
        }]
    },
    itunesImage: 'http://link.to/image.png'
});

/* loop over data and add to feed */
feed.item({
    title:  'item title',
    description: 'use this for the content. It can include html.',
    url: 'http://example.com/article4?this&that', // link to the item
    guid: '1123', // optional - defaults to url
    categories: ['Category 1','Category 2','Category 3','Category 4'], // optional - array of item categories
    author: 'Guest Author', // optional - defaults to feed author property
    date: 'May 27, 2012', // any format that js Date can parse.
    lat: 33.417974, //optional latitude field for GeoRSS
    long: -111.933231, //optional longitude field for GeoRSS
    enclosure : {url:'...', file:'path-to-file'}, // optional enclosure
    itunesAuthor: 'Joseph Dykstra',
    itunesExplicit: false,
    itunesSubtitle: 'I am a sub title',
    itunesSummary: 'I am a summary',
    itunesDuration: 12345,
    itunesKeywords: ['javascript','podcast']
});

// cache the xml to send to clients
var xml = feed.xml();

Tests

Tests included use Tape. Use npm test to run the tests.

$ npm test

Notes

You do not need to escape anything. This module will escape characters when necessary.
This module is very fast but you might as well cache the output of xml() and serve it until something changes.

Credit / License

I forked the node-podcast module, because it wasn't passing its tests, and the install was failing.

Original Repository License

MIT

TehShrike/podcast2