If I can't do this would the process for getting the data be: 1) Have my server get the rss data from the desired rss feed. 2) Have the server parse the data. I don't know what rss looks like but I assume some parsing is needed to display it for a user to read. 3) Send the data to the javascript client.
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Or you can use the API of Google Feed to load a RSS Feed and parse it as you need. :) I think is a interesting option.
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Robert K. Bell
Sadly, the Google Feed API is now deprecated.
satoshi
this link is broken.
You can use Yahoo's YQL system just for this. A decent link via Google:
http://www.wait-till-i.com/2008/12/12/yql-is-so-the-bomb-to-get-web-data-as-xml-or-json/
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Another option is to use postrank's api. http://apidocs.postrank.com/w/page/17907957/Feed-API or http://apidocs.postrank.com/w/page/17907977/Top-Posts-API.
They have some options to filter or return only the top posts. plus you can pass it a callback for jsonp fun.