tidyfeed {tidyRSS}

Extract a tidy data frame from RSS, Atom and JSON feeds

Description

tidyfeed() downloads and parses rss feeds. The function produces either a tidy data frame or a named list, easy to use for further manipulation and analysis.

Usage

tidyfeed(
  feed,
  config = list(),
  clean_tags = TRUE,
  list = FALSE,
  parse_dates = TRUE
)

Arguments

feed

character, the url for the feed that you want to parse, e.g. "http://journal.r-project.org/rss.atom".

config

Arguments passed off to httr::GET().

clean_tags

logical, default TRUE. Cleans columns of HTML tags.

list

logical, default FALSE. Return metadata and content as separate dataframes in a named list.

parse_dates

logical, default TRUE. If TRUE, tidyRSS will attempt to parse columns that contain datetime values, although this may fail, see note.

Note

tidyfeed() attempts to parse columns that should contain dates. This can fail, as can be seen here. If you need lower-level control over the parsing of dates, it's better to leave parse_dates equal to FALSE and then parse these yourself.

Author(s)

Robert Myles McDonnell, [e-mail]

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

See Also

GET()

Examples

## Not run: 
# Atom feed:
tidyfeed("http://journal.r-project.org/rss.atom")
# rss/xml:
tidyfeed("http://fivethirtyeight.com/all/feed")
# jsonfeed:
tidyfeed("https://daringfireball.net/feeds/json")

## End(Not run)