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NAME

XML::Feed::Aggregator

VERSION

version 0.0401

SYNOPSIS

use XML::Feed::Aggregator;

my $syndicator = XML::Feed::Aggregator->new(
    sources => [
        "http://blogs.perl.org/atom.xml",
        "http://news.ycombinator.com/"
    ],
    feeds => [ XML::Feed->parse('./slashdot.rss') ]


)->fetch->aggregate->deduplicate->sort_by_date;

$syndicator->grep_entries(sub {
    $_->author ne 'James'
})->deduplicate;

say $syndicator->map_entries(sub { $_->title } );

DESCRIPTION

This module aggregates feeds from different sources for easy filtering and sorting.

NAME

XML::Feed::Aggregator - Simple feed aggregator

ATTRIBUTES

sources

Sources to be fetched and loaded into the feeds attribute.

Coerces to an ArrayRef of URI objects.

feeds

An ArrayRef of XML::Feed objects.

entries

List of XML::Feed::Entry objects obtained from each feed

METHODS

fetch

Convert each source into an XML::Feed object, via XML::Feed->parse()

For a remote address this involves a http request.

aggregate

Combine all feed entries into a single 'entries' attribute

to_feed

Export aggregated feed to a single XML::Feed object.

All parameters passed to XML::Feed constructor.

FEED METHODS

Methods relating to the 'feeds' attribute

add_feed

Add a new feed to the 'feeds' attribute.

all_feeds

Return all feeds as an Array.

feed_count

Number of feeds.

ENTRY METHODS

Methods relating to the 'entries' attribute

sort_entries

See XML::Feed::Aggregator::Sort

map_entries

Loop over all entries using $_ within a CodeRef.

grep_entries

Grep through entries using $_ within a CodeRef.

add_entry

Add a new entry to the aggregated feed.

entry_count

Number of entries.

all_entries

Returns all entries as an array

ROLES

This class consumes the following roles for sorting and deduplication.

XML::Feed::Aggregator::Deduper XML::Feed::Aggregator::Sort

ERROR HANDLING

error_count

Number of errors occured.

errors

An ArrayRef of errors whilst fetching / parsing feeds.

SEE ALSO

XML::Feed::Aggregator::Deduper

XML::Feed::Aggregator::Sort

App::Syndicator Perlanet XML::Feed Feed::Find

AUTHOR

Robin Edwards robin.ge@gmail.com

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Robin Edwards.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.