Using feedparser is a much better option than rolling your own with minidom or BeautifulSoup. It normalizes the differences between all versions of RSS and Atom so you don’t have to have different code for each type. It’s good about detecting different date formats and other variations in feeds. It automatically follows HTTP redirects. It … Read more
WARNING The Google Feed API is officially deprecated and doesn’t work anymore! No need for a whole plugin. This will return your RSS as a JSON object to a callback function: function parseRSS(url, callback) { $.ajax({ url: document.location.protocol + ‘//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/feed/load?v=1.0&num=10&callback=?&q=’ + encodeURIComponent(url), dataType: ‘json’, success: function(data) { callback(data.responseData.feed); } }); }