Package 'tidyRSS'

Title: Tidy RSS for R
Description: With the objective of including data from RSS feeds into your analysis, 'tidyRSS' parses RSS, Atom and JSON feeds and returns a tidy data frame.
Authors: Robert Myles McDonnell [aut, cre], Jonathan Carroll [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1404-5264>), Mike Smith [ctb], Jemma Stachelek [ctb], Andrew Frasier [ctb], Tom Broekel [ctb], Jeremy Gerdes [ctb], Chung-hong Chan [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6232-7530>)
Maintainer: Robert Myles McDonnell <[email protected]>
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Version: 2.0.7
Built: 2026-05-21 07:31:10 UTC
Source: https://github.com/robertmyles/tidyrss

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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, [email protected]

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)