RSS Feed

[Pax 4]

May be used for reading certain forums within IPB, or other web/software.

 

import java.net.URL;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;

public class RSSFeed {

	/**
	 * @author: Pax M
	 */

	/**
	 * The URL that we want to read from
	 */
	public static String URL = "

 
	
		

			
This is the hidden content, please
			

				

					Sign In
				
				
or
				

					Sign Up
				
			
		
		
	
	
";

	/**
	 * Read the RSS
	 * 
	 * @param read element
     * @param read tagName
	 * @return element
     * @return tagName
	 */
	public static String read(String element, String tagName) {
		try {
			DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory
					.newInstance();
			DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
			Document doc = builder.parse(new URL(URL).openConnection()
					.getInputStream());
			doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();

			for (int temp = 0; temp < doc.getElementsByTagName(tagName)
					.getLength(); temp++) {
				Node nNode = doc.getElementsByTagName(tagName).item(temp);
				if (nNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
					Element eElement = (Element) nNode;
					return eElement.getElementsByTagName(element).item(0)
							.getTextContent();
				}
			}
		} catch (Exception e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		return null;
	}
}

 

Usage:

 

RSSFeed.read(element, tagName);

 

Edited March 27, 2017 by Pax

[torque0 1]

great stuff

[josh555 3]

I like this, can be helpful to plenty that are traveling this path

[Origin 1,877]

appreciate you contribution!

[khepius 0]

sanks