Read custom elements from rss using Feedzirra

Question

i´m using feedzirra to fetch and parse a document with the following structure:

<item>
    <title>Title</title>
    <description>Ddescription</description>
    <date>2014-02-01 20:00:00</date>
    <durationMinutes>40</durationMinutes>
    <sessionGuid>f09c385khll5-5edc-4c8a-8370-1027ac7cb2ce</sessionGuid>
    <eventGuid>1d53fac2-a553-46b2-a72323s</eventGuid>
    <sessionID>782235</sessionID>
</item>

When looping through the entries, entry.title and entry.description give me access to those elements, but i cannot get the rest.

This is the code for fetching and parsing:

feed = Feedzirra::Feed.fetch_and_parse("http://localhost/sessionallrss-21Dec.xml")
    feed.entries.each do |entry|
      unless exists? Event.find_by_guid(:guid)
        event = Event.new
        event.title = entry.title
        event.description = entry.description
        event.sessionGuid = entry.sessionGuid
        event.durationMinutes = entry.durationMinutes
        event.save
      end
    end

How do i get the value for custom named elements like "durationMinutes" or "sessionGuid"?

Answer 1

Have you tried inspecting the entry object to see if it has the attributes by different names? (puts entry.inspect)

If the elements/attributes are missing from the inspection, you can add them into the parser like so:

Feedjira::Feed.add_common_feed_entry_element('durationMinutes')
Feedjira::Feed.add_common_feed_entry_element('sessionGui')

References:

• http://feedjira.com/extending.html
• http://www.rubydoc.info/github/feedjira/feedjira/Feedjira/Feed#add_common_feed_entry_element-class_method