RSS & Atom Feeds for PHP is a very small and easy-to-use library for consuming an RSS and Atom feeds.
It requires PHP 5.3 or newer with CURL extension or enabled allow_url_fopen and is licensed under the New BSD License. You can obtain the latest version from our GitHub repository or install it via Composer:
php composer.phar require dg/rss-php
Download RSS feed from URL:
$rss = Feed::loadRss($url);
The returned properties are SimpleXMLElement objects. Extracting the information from the channel is easy:
echo 'Title: ', $rss->title;
echo 'Description: ', $rss->description;
echo 'Link: ', $rss->url;
foreach ($rss->item as $item) {
echo 'Title: ', $item->title;
echo 'Link: ', $item->url;
echo 'Timestamp: ', $item->timestamp;
echo 'Description ', $item->description;
echo 'HTML encoded content: ', $item->{'content:encoded'};
}
Download Atom feed from URL:
$atom = Feed::loadAtom($url);
You can also enable caching:
Feed::$cacheDir = __DIR__ . '/tmp';
Feed::$cacheExpire = '5 hours';
You can setup a User-Agent if needed:
Feed::$userAgent = "FeedFetcher-Google; (+http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html)";
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