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RSS Parser¶

The RSS Parser plugin provides RSS parsing tags for your templates. It uses SimplePie to parse and render any RSS or Atom feed you throw at it.

Example
Parameters
Single Variables
Pair Variables
Conditionals

Example ¶

Here’s a simple example where we’re pulling the EllisLab blog feed and showing the five most recent posts:

{exp:rss_parser url="https://ellislab.com/blog/rss-feed" limit="5"}
<h1>{feed_title}</h1>
<ul>
    {feed_items}
        <li>
            <h2><a href="{item_link}">{item_title}</a></h2>
            <ul class="metadata">
                <li class="byline">by {item_authors backspace="2"}{author_name}, {/item_authors}</li>
                <li class="date">{item_date format="%F %d %Y"}</li>
            </ul>
            {item_content}
        </li>
    {/feed_items}
</ul>
{/exp:rss_parser}

Parameters ¶

There are four available parameters:

url:	The URL of the RSS or Atom feed
limit:	Number of items to display from the feed
offset:	Number of items to skip from the feed
refresh:	How long you want the feed to be cached (default cache length is three hours)

Single Variables ¶

Most of the variables are fairly self explanatory:

{feed_title}
{feed_link}
{feed_copyright}
{feed_description}
{feed_language}

Both RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 feeds can have a “feed logo”. The following variables can be used to display the logo:

{logo_title}
{logo_url}
{logo_link}
{logo_width}
{logo_height}

Also, if there’s an error in retrieving the feed, you can use the following variable to display the error:

{feed_error}

Pair Variables ¶

There are three pair variables available: {feed_items}, {item_categories}, and {item_authors}. Both {item_categories} and {item_authors}, are only available within {feed_items}.

`{feed_items}`¶

The {feed_items} variable contains all of the items found within the feed:

{item_title}
{item_link}
{item_date}: uses standard ExpressionEngine date formatting (e.g. {date format="%F %d %Y"})
{item_description}: tends to be a short excerpt of the full {item_content}, but varies
{item_content}: tends to be full content, but varies

`{item_authors}`¶

The {item_authors} variable contains information about all of the authors of a particular item. Each author has three single variables associated with it:

{author_email}
{author_link}
{author_name}

`{item_categories}`¶

The {item_categories} variable contains all of the categories that a feed item has been assigned. Each category has one useful variable:

{category_name}

Conditionals ¶

There are only two conditionals:

{if feed_error}: In case of a feed error the parser will only display content inside of this conditional, if the conditional does not exist, nothing is shown.
{if no_results}: Just like the Channel module, if there are no results only show the contents of this conditional.

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RSS Parser¶