Real alternative for Google Feed API [closed]

Question

I find myself working with feeds (rss, atom, json, etc) pretty often, and most of the time it's mixing these feeds together for a site, and it's nothing but pain trying to build your code to get every condition right, and it's a waste of time, money and resources.

So I've been using the Google Feed API for a lot of stuff, but now that's it has been killed (but not buried, yet [buried 2nd of December 2015] {given some more time 4th of December}) , I have to find an alternative. Here's the features that made Google Feed API awesome, and these are also requirements for any alternative:

• Works with URL, just like the good old Google API: https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/feed/load?v=2.0&num=200&q=https://blog.stackoverflow.com/feed/ [So, GET requests? I guess POST would be also fine, but GET is always better for our use]
• Produces predictable output (returns the same json schema every time, no matter what kind of feed)

It doesn't really matter if it's a paid service (within reason, of course), or if it comes with a free plan, but ease of use should be a priority!

Having to whitelist a domain which is allowed to request from said service backend is ok, or using a token, but having to subscribe to a feed from a backend is not acceptable, as we build these services for clients, who will not have access to said backends or want to use them.

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TL;DR;

We need a service that converts any feed I throw at it to JSON from URL. Can cost money, or be self hosted. (which would probably be best, seeing what happened to Yahoo Pipes, and then Feed API...)

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Edit

So, Google Feed API was buried today, and a lot of stuff is now dead. While I do generally agree that recommendation-questions attract opionated answers and spam, there really isn't any information available on the subject, it's feedburner or superfeedr that I keep getting results, and neither don't really offer the same functionality as Google's api.

Julian has a good point in the comments, no one can afford to poll all feeds in the world, but no one is asking to do that.

I would gladly pay per request to fetch feeds per request, I'm not asking to keep track of the feed 24/7, only when I ask for it. That's the main problem with Superfeedr, alongside the fact that it's not as easy to use.

Edit 2

Seems like I don't have to pay per request:

http://rss2json.com/

I would thread carefully with this one though, as it's free, has no information whatsoever and is probably going to have a hard time with the traffic as people start finding it.

There's also plenty of OS alternatives popping up on Github.

Geulincx

And yes, I am aware of superfeedr which everyone seems to be so hyped about, it even advertises itself with words like "like Google Feed API", but it's not the same. – Geulincx

Christian, I'm Julien from Superfeedr. What do you miss? We're really working hard to make sure we can close the gap between what we provide and what Google provided. Feel free to get in touch. – Hog

@JulienGenestoux With Google, a single jsonp request would retrieve RSS data from, say, a WordPress blog. Your solution requires a callback url (WTF is that?), all types of configuration and your docs are horrible for a JavaScript developer. I use Angular and your wrapper no matter how hard I try will not give me my content. – Starch

Scott, please read this: blog.superfeedr.com/ways-to-use-superfeedr We're not google, we can't afford to poll all feeds in the world all the time... actual, google even can't, which is why they deprecated their API. – Hog

I wrote an blogpost about a possible solution, when you have access to the server: lingohub.com/blog/2015/12/… – Kooima

@JulienGenestoux Where is it stated that Google deprecated Feed API because "they couldn't afford to poll all the feeds"? Or are you just assuming stuff? – Barocchio

I agree with @Geulincx Superfeedr isn't easy to use which is why I went for Google Feeds API in the first place. – Schooner

I have since ported my feeds over to Yahoo's YQL developer.yahoo.com/yql select * from xml where url = 'https://news.ycombinator.com/rss' – Barocchio

@Barocchio YQL seems an okay solution, but it's not a drop in replacement what pretty much everything is looking for at the moment. – Geulincx

@JulienGenestoux I happen to be developing a website that requires pulling feed from arxiv.org through there atom public api. I tried Superfeedr since yesterday and I was able to make it work, however, it seems that for any given feed entry, if it is retrieved once, it won't be retrieved again (http 200, but returned item size = 0). This is not desirable for me, because the arxiv.org api returns some sort of search result in atom (xml) format, I would like to have the full content (in json, so it could be consumed) every time I query the api. With google feed api, I don't have this issue. – Pacha

@Geulincx I agree that YQL is not a dropin solution. Although it is much easier to integrate it into your backend than the convoluted superfeedr. – Barocchio

@VictorF they didn't really announce a date to anybody and everyone was caught with their panties down. I'd keep developing another solution if I were you, as this is most likely only temporarily. But props for Google for giving everyone more time. – Geulincx

Is it working again?! I had the same problem and I was developing another solution. But today, it seems normal. Users are commenting here developers.google.com/feed/forum – Salter

YQL is a dropin solution if you use my jQuery lib, it extends jQuery ajax to use YQL to implement x-domain for feeds (and html). github.com/rickdog/cross-domain-ajax-XML – Fronton

It seem to be the Google API does not work any more. {"responseData": null, "responseDetails": "This API is no longer available.", "responseStatus": 403} – Asiatic

If someone wants to roll their own, you can use a library like Fractal, if you happen to use PHP. Similar libraries are probably available to other languages as well. – Geulincx

You can use YQL and if you want a JSON response you can track down your endpoint here: developer.yahoo.com/yql using the following query: select * from rss where url="YOURRSSURLHERE" and then do AJAX: var url = [THE ENDPOINT THE YQL PAGE GIVES YOU]; $.ajax({ url: url, dataType: "jsonp", success: function (response) { $("#news").html(""); for (var i = 0; i < 3; i++) { $("#news").append(response.query.results.item[i].description); } } }); – Tsuda

No just hope that YQL is not dropped now that yahoo has been acquired by someone else... It is a nice alternative to googles feed api. – Kirbykirch