[ draw.logic ]

Mike Chambers has a great post on parsing RSS in AS3 with as3syndicationlib. I had some info on this in development but Mike’s post is very simple and just posting the code here for reference.

import com.adobe.utils.XMLUtil;
import com.adobe.xml.syndication.rss.Item20;
import com.adobe.xml.syndication.rss.RSS20;

import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.IOErrorEvent;
import flash.events.SecurityErrorEvent;
import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.net.URLRequestMethod;

private var loader:URLLoader;

//url of rss 2.0 feed
private static const RSS_URL:String = "http://feeds.feedburner.com/MikeChambers/";

//called when user presses the button to load feed
private function onLoadPress():void
{
 loader = new URLLoader();

	//request pointing to feed
 var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(RSS_URL);
 request.method = URLRequestMethod.GET;

	//listen for when the data loads
 loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onDataLoad);

	//listen for error events
 loader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, onIOError);
 loader.addEventListener(SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR, onSecurityError);

	//load the feed data
 loader.load(request);
}

//called once the data has loaded from the feed
private function onDataLoad(e:Event):void
{
 //get the raw string data from the feed
 var rawRSS:String = URLLoader(e.target).data;

	//parse it as RSS
 parseRSS(rawRSS);

}

//parses RSS 2.0 feed and prints out the feed titles into
//the text area
private function parseRSS(data:String):void
{

	//XMLSyndicationLibrary does not validate that the data contains valid
 //XML, so you need to validate that the data is valid XML.
 //We use the XMLUtil.isValidXML API from the corelib library.
 if(!XMLUtil.isValidXML(data))
 {
 	writeOutput("Feed does not contain valid XML.");
 	return;
 }	

	//create RSS20 instance
 var rss:RSS20 = new RSS20();

		//parse the raw rss data
 	rss.parse(data);

		//get all of the items within the feed
 	var items:Array = rss.items;

		//loop through each item in the feed
 	for each(var item:Item20 in items)
 	{
 		//print out the title of each item
 		writeOutput(item.title);
 	}
}

private function writeOutput(data:String):void
{
 outputField.text += data + "\n";
}

private function onIOError(e:IOErrorEvent):void
{
 writeOutput("IOError : " + e.text);
}

private function onSecurityError(e:SecurityErrorEvent):void
{
 writeOutput("SecurityError : " + e.text);
}

Check out the full post on this at Mike’s blog.