gofeed | Parse RSS , Atom and JSON feeds in Go | JSON Processing library

gofeed is a Go library typically used in Utilities, JSON Processing applications. gofeed has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has medium support. You can download it from GitHub.

The gofeed library is comprised of a universal feed parser and several feed specific parsers. Which one you choose depends entirely on your usecase. If you will be handling rss, atom and json feeds then it makes sense to use the gofeed.Parser. If you know ahead of time that you will only be parsing one feed type then it would make sense to use rss.Parser or atom.Parser or json.Parser. The universal gofeed.Parser works in 3 stages: detection, parsing and translation. It first detects the feed type that it is currently parsing. Then it uses a feed specific parser to parse the feed into its true representation which will be either a rss.Feed or atom.Feed or json.Feed. These models cover every field possible for their respective feed types. Finally, they are translated into a gofeed.Feed model that is a hybrid of all feed types. Performing the universal feed parsing in these 3 stages allows for more flexibility and keeps the code base more maintainable by separating RSS, Atom and Json parsing into seperate packages. The translation step is done by anything which adheres to the gofeed.Translator interface. The DefaultRSSTranslator, DefaultAtomTranslator, DefaultJSONTranslator are used behind the scenes when you use the gofeed.Parser with its default settings. You can see how they translate fields from atom.Feed or rss.Feed json.Feed to the universal gofeed.Feed struct in the Default Mappings section. However, should you disagree with the way certain fields are translated you can easily supply your own gofeed.Translator and override this behavior. See the Advanced Usage section for an example how to do this. The gofeed library provides two feed specific parsers: atom.Parser, rss.Parser and json.Parser. If the hybrid gofeed.Feed model that the universal gofeed.Parser produces does not contain a field from the atom.Feed or rss.Feed or json.Feed model that you require, it might be beneficial to use the feed specific parsers. When using the atom.Parser or rss.Parser or json.Parser directly, you can access all of fields found in the atom.Feed, rss.Feed and json.Feed models. It is also marginally faster because you are able to skip the translation step.