Fetch and parse an RSS feed

rss/rss.go

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+package rss
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+
+	"github.com/mmcdole/gofeed"
+)
+
+type RssItem struct {
+	Title       string
+	Description string
+	Link        string
+}
+
+func (item RssItem) String() string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf("RssItem(Title=%s, ...)", item.Title)
+}
+
+func FetchRss(url string) ([]RssItem, error) {
+	fp := gofeed.NewParser()
+	feed, err := fp.ParseURL(url)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	items := make([]RssItem, 0, len(feed.Items))
+	for _, item := range feed.Items {
+		newItem := RssItem{item.Title, item.Description, item.Link}
+		items = append(items, newItem)
+	}
+	return items, nil
+}