Saturday, May 19, 2007

Reading RSS feeds with Java

If you were interested in incorporating RSS feeds into your java code you might want to have a look at Project Rome which is an open source java library for handling RSS feeds. Rome is currently in version 0.9 can be found at https://rome.dev.java.net/

I wrote a simple sample program which reads a given RSS feed and display some of the feed entries along with some attributes. It will also display the RSS version, as there are different versions of RSS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)

This simple program is the following:


import com.sun.syndication.feed.synd.SyndFeed;
import com.sun.syndication.feed.synd.SyndEntry;
import com.sun.syndication.feed.synd.SyndImageImpl;
import com.sun.syndication.io.SyndFeedInput;
import com.sun.syndication.io.XmlReader;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.util.List;
import com.sun.syndication.feed.synd.SyndContentImpl;


/*
* 2 Required Jar files
* rome-0.9.jar retrieved from http://rome.dev.java.net/
* jdom.jar retrieved from http://www.jdom.org/
*/

public class RSSReader
{

public static void iterateRSSFeed(String rssFeedUrl)
{
try
{
//open up a connection to the rss feed

URLConnection feedUrl = new URL(rssFeedUrl).openConnection();

//Create Feed Object
SyndFeedInput input = new SyndFeedInput();
SyndFeed feed = input.build(new XmlReader(feedUrl));

System.out.println("Examining rss feed:"+rssFeedUrl+"\n");

System.out.println("Feed type="+feed.getFeedType());

//Iterate through object to get details
List list = feed.getEntries();

System.out.println("Feed image="+feed.getImage());
if (feed.getImage()!=null)
{
SyndImageImpl image = (SyndImageImpl)feed.getImage();
String imageInfo = "Image url:"+image.getUrl()+"\n";
System.out.println(imageInfo);
}
for (int i=0 ; i < list.size(); i++){

//display entry attributes
SyndEntry entry = (SyndEntry)list.get(i);
String display = "Entry:"+i;
display += "\ntitle:"+entry.getTitle();
display += "\nlink:"+entry.getLink();
display += "\nauthor:"+entry.getAuthor();
display += "\npublished:"+entry.getPublishedDate();
display += "\nupdated:"+entry.getUpdatedDate();
display += "\ndescription:"+entry.getDescription();

display += "\ncontent size:"+entry.getContents().size();
if (entry.getContents().size()==1)
{
SyndContentImpl imp = (SyndContentImpl)entry.getContents().get(0);
display += "\ncontent value:"+imp.getValue();
}
display += "\n";
System.out.println(display);

}

}
catch(Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}

}


public static void main(String[] args) {

//James Gosling's blog
String rssFeedUrl = "http://blogs.sun.com/jag/feed/entries/rss";

//Mark Cuban's blog
//rssFeedUrl = "http://www.blogmaverick.com/rss.xml";

//rssFeedUrl = "http://techinitiatives.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default";

//RSS 2.0
//rssFeedUrl = "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=FRXX0076&u=c";

iterateRSSFeed(rssFeedUrl);


}
}

34 comments:

Sameera Nelson said...

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Gopi said...

I am getting a connectionTimeOut at the below mentioned line for what ever URL I give..
SyndFeed feed = input.build(new XmlReader(feedUrl));

Any ideas as what is that I am doing wrong

Anonymous said...

Thnks a lot... God bless u

Anonymous said...

Great work ..! that really helps me

prakash said...
This comment has been removed by the author.
prakash said...

Hai you done great job.It is very useful for my application.one quires possible to read Google rss feeds....
emailId:prakashmsamy@gmail.com

Thanks a lot

Unknown said...

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Unknown said...

generates this error why?

Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jdom/input/JDOMParseException
at com.sun.syndication.io.SyndFeedInput.(SyndFeedInput.java:58)
at com.sun.syndication.io.SyndFeedInput.(SyndFeedInput.java:48)
at feedrss.Main.main(Main.java:27)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jdom.input.JDOMParseException
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
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at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)
… 3 more
Java Result: 1

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Unknown said...

I have tried the example, at final i got the error that,

java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:352)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:214)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:201)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:377)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:530)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:480)
at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:175)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:406)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:541)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.(HttpClient.java:245)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:318)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:335)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(HttpURLConnection.java:832)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:773)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:698)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1021)
at com.sun.syndication.io.XmlReader.(XmlReader.java:237)
at test.RssTest.iterateRSSFeed(RssTest.java:21)
at test.RssTest.main(RssTest.java:69)

Please advice.

Thanks in advance

Srinivas

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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jdom/input/JDOMParseException
at com.sun.syndication.io.SyndFeedInput.(SyndFeedInput.java:57)
at com.sun.syndication.io.SyndFeedInput.(SyndFeedInput.java:47)

i have added jdom 2.0.5 version..

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