getRSSFeed: This function ruturns an XML tree of the RSS feed from the...

In jbryer/makeR: Package for managing projects with multiple versions derived from a single source repository.

Description

This function utilizes the (unofficial) Google Reader API to retrieve RSS feeds. The advantage of access RSS feeds through the Google Reader API is that you are not limited by the number of entries a website may included in their feed. That is, Google maintains generally maintains a complete history of entries from the RSS feed.

Usage

  getRSSFeed(feedURL, email, passwd, posts = 1000)

Arguments

feedURL	the full URL to the RSS feed.
email	the email address for the Google Reader account
passwd	the password for the Google Reader account
posts	the number of posts to return

Details

Note that the contents of the results will be limited by what the website provides in their feeds. That is, Google does not contain more information per entry then what the website originally provided. If the initial feed contained only excerpts of the article, the feed from Google will too only contain excerpts. Be aware though that for sites that do provide the complete contents of posts will result in potentially very large downloads.

Value

the root XMLNode for the RSS feed.

Author(s)

Jason Bryer <[e-mail]>

See Also

xmlRoot for the format of the returned XML tree

jbryer/makeR documentation built on May 18, 2019, 7:02 p.m.