I have a problem for parsing a rss feed using c#. I used to use this method to load the feed. XDocument rssFeed = XDocument.Load(@url); But, when I notice when the feed has a xml-stylesheet this method crashes saying the xml is not well formated... Here's a rss feed that contains this tag http://www.channelnews.fr/accueil.feed?type=rss
What would be the best way to parse any rss feed using c#?
Thanks for your help
This code works for me
static XDocument DownloadPage()
{
var req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://www.channelnews.fr/accueil.feed?type=rss");
req.UserAgent = "Mozilla";
using(var response = req.GetResponse())
using(var stream = response.GetResponseStream())
using (var reader = new StreamReader(stream))
return XDocument.Load(reader);
}
Note, that if you omit setting UserAgent, then response will contain string 'DOS' that is defnintly not xml :)
This one works nicer:
XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Load("http://pedroliska.wordpress.com/feed/");
var items = from i in xdoc.Descendants("item")
select new
{
Title = i.Element("title").Value
};
So now you can access the rss titles by doing a loop or something like:
items[0].Title
And just the code is pulling the title from the rss feed, you can pull the description, link, pubDate, etc.
.Descendants and .Element, or you might get 0 results. For Atom feeds this is static, so: private static string XName(string elementName) { return string.Concat("{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}", elementName); }