feedfix
A smarter Node.js based reverse-proxy that fixes crappy RSS/Atom/XML feeds that still live in the 90's where everyone had their own idea of non-ISO date formats.
Usage
First kind of transformation to make is on dates:
http://datefixer.example.com?url=http://idiots.rss.com/stupidRSS.xml&datefields=pubDate&datefmt=ddd+MMM+DD+HH:mm:ss+z+YYYY
This will convert all field values in pubDate to ISO date format,
where originally they had the form of ddd MMM DD HH:mm:ss z YYYY.
For how to compose formats, see moment.
Another kind of transformation is on the id field:
http://datefixer.example.com?url=http://idiots.rss.com/stupidRSS.xml&cleanid=guid
This will clear all the params in field guid.
<guid>http://idiots.com/12345?t=2014-01-13T08:52:31Z</guid>
To
<guid>http://idiots.com/12345<guid>
Dependencies
One implicit dependency is libxml2 which feedfix uses implicitly, in
order to get good parsing performance. If you're hosting on Heroku, its
already there, if on your own servers, make sure to install libxml2
and its development headers.
Heroku
This service should just snap into Heroku easily.
$ git clone git://github.com/jondot/feedfix.git
$ cd feedfix; heroku create;
$ git push heroku master
Contributing
Fork, implement, add tests, pull request, get my everlasting thanks and a respectable place here :).
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2012- Dotan Nahum @jondot. See MIT-LICENSE for further details.