With .net 3.5, there is a SyndicationFeed that will load in a RSS feed and allow you to run LINQ on it.
Here is an example of the RSS that I am loading:
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"> <channel> <title>Title of RSS feed</title> <link>http://www.google.com</link> <description>Details about the feed</description> <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 08 21:44:21 -0500</pubDate> <language>en</language> <item> <title>Article 1</title> <description><![CDATA[How to use StackOverflow.com]]></description> <link>http://youtube.com/?v=y6_-cLWwEU0</link> <media:player url="http://youtube.com/?v=y6_-cLWwEU0" /> <media:thumbnail url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/y6_-cLWwEU0/default.jpg" width="120" height="90" /> <media:title>Jared on StackOverflow</media:title> <media:category label="Tags">tag1, tag2</media:category> <media:credit>Jared</media:credit> <enclosure url="http://youtube.com/v/y6_-cLWwEU0.swf" length="233" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/> </item> </channel>
When I loop through the items, I can get back the title and the link through the public properties of SyndicationItem.
I can't seem to figure out how to get the attributes of the enclosure tag, or the values of the media tags. I tried using
SyndicationItem.ElementExtensions.ReadElementExtensions<string>("player", "http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/")
Any help with either of these?
This should give you an idea on how to do it:
using System.Linq; using System.ServiceModel.Syndication; using System.Xml; using System.Xml.Linq;
SyndicationFeed feed = reader.Read(); foreach (var item in feed.Items) { foreach (SyndicationElementExtension extension in item.ElementExtensions) { XElement ele = extension.GetObject<XElement>(); Console.WriteLine(ele.Value); } }
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