Please note: This package is still under development and not yet intended for productive usage but feel free to contribute.

Tentaclefeed FeedReader

With this package it is easy to discover, read and parse RSS and ATOM feeds.

Installation

You can install this package via composer using:

composer require tentaclefeed/feedreader

The package will automatically register itself.

Publish configuration

To publish the FeedReader config file run:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Tentaclefeed\Feedreader\FeedreaderServiceProvider" --tag="config"

The default config file contains the following:

return [
/* |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Cache configuration |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | The FeedReader and Explorer can cache requests automatically for you to | increase performance. | */'cache' => [
'explorer' => [
'seconds' => 86400, // One day
],
'reader' => [
'seconds' => 1800, // 30 minutes
],
],
];

Usage

Discover Feeds

useTentaclefeed\Feedreader\Facades\FeedReader;
$feeds = FeedReader::discover('https://www.nytimes.com/');
/*Illuminate\Support\Collection {#491 #items: array:1 [ 0 => array:3 [ "title" => "RSS", "icon" => "http://nytimes.com/vi-assets/static-assets/apple-touch-icon-28865b72953380a40aa43318108876cb.png" "type" => "application/rss+xml", "href" => "https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml" ] ]}*/

Read Feed

useTentaclefeed\Feedreader\Facades\FeedReader;
$feed = FeedReader::read('https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml');
/* Tentaclefeed\Feedreader\Models\Feed {#430 -title: "NYT > Top Stories" -subtitle: "" -icon: null -updated_at: Carbon\Carbon @1619976397 {#485} -author: null -rights: "Copyright 2021 The New York Times Company" -items: Illumin…\Collection {#487}}*/

API

Tentaclefeed\Feedreader\Models\Feed

Method	Return type	Description
$feed->getTitle()	string	The title of the feed.
$feed->getSubtitle()	string	The subtitle/description of the feed.
$feed->getUpdatedAt()	Carbon\Carbon	The last modification date of the feed.
$feed->getAuthor()	Tentaclefeed\Feedreader\Models\Author	The author of the feed.
$feed->getRights()	string	Copyright notices.
$feed->getItems()	Illuminate\Support\Collection	Articles from the feed.

Tentaclefeed\Feedreader\Models\Author

Method	Return type	Description
$author->getName()	string	The name of the author.
$author->getUri()	string or null	The uri of the author.

Tentaclefeed\Feedreader\Models\FeedItem

Method	Return type	Description
$item->getId()	string	The id of the item.
$item->getTitle()	string	The title of the item.
$item->getCreatedAt()	Carbon\Carbon	The datetime the item was published/created.
$item->getUrl()	string	The url of the item.
$item->getSummary()	string	The content summary of the item.

Testing

Run the tests with:

composer test

TODO

• Improve IconScraper to recognize more icons

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.