wiltongarcia/picofeed

Modern library to handle RSS/Atom feeds

v0.1.20 2016-03-01 12:55 UTC

Requires

• php: >=5.3.0
• ext-dom: *
• ext-iconv: *
• ext-libxml: *
• ext-simplexml: *
• ext-xml: *
• zendframework/zendxml: ^1.0

Suggests

• ext-curl: PicoFeed will use cURL if present

MIT

• Frédéric Guillot
• Wilton Garcia

README

PicoFeed was originally developed for Miniflux, a minimalist and open source news reader.

However, this library can be used inside any project. PicoFeed is tested with a lot of different feeds and it's simple and easy to use.

Features

• Simple and fast
• Feed parser for Atom 1.0 and RSS 0.91, 0.92, 1.0 and 2.0
• Feed writer for Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0
• Favicon fetcher
• Import/Export OPML subscriptions
• Content filter: HTML cleanup, remove pixel trackers and Ads
• Multiple HTTP client adapters: cURL or Stream Context
• Proxy support
• Content grabber: download from the original website the full content
• Enclosure detection
• RTL languages support
• License: MIT

Requirements

• PHP >= 5.3
• libxml >= 2.7
• XML PHP extensions: DOM and SimpleXML
• cURL or Stream Context (allow_url_fopen=On)
• iconv extension

Authors

• Original author: Frédéric Guillot
• Major Contributors:
  • Bernhard Posselt
  • David Pennington
  • Mathias Kresin

Real world usage

• Miniflux
• Owncloud News

Documentation

• Installation
• Running unit tests
• Feed parsing
• Feed creation
• Favicon fetcher
• OPML file importation
• OPML file exportation
• Image proxy (avoid SSL mixed content warnings)
• Web scraping
• Exceptions
• Debugging
• Configuration