Loading RSS feed with AJAX: alternatives to Google Feed API?

Question

I've been using the Google Feed API to load RSS feeds, but it looks like Google has shut down the API. For instance, when I try to load the New York Times RSS feed at http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/feed/load?v=1.0&num=1000&q=http%3A%2F%2Frss.nytimes.com%2Fservices%2Fxml%2Frss%2Fnyt%2FHomePage.xml, I get this response:

{"responseData": null, "responseDetails": "This API is no longer available.", "responseStatus": 403}

Are there any viable alternatives?

Epithet

Answer 1

Use Yahoo's YQL API:

select * from xml where url = 'https://news.ycombinator.com/rss'

You can request a JSONP feed by adding a callback parameter to the url

https://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20xml%20where%20url%20%3D%20'https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2Frss'&format=json&env=store%3A%2F%2Fdatatables.org%2Falltableswithkeys&callback=mycallback

Iata

I hate to ask but could you provide a fiddle for this to show how it works? I would really appreciate and am not sure how your solution works or what will be displayed and how the HTML will look on the page. – Salmonella

@Salmonella Here's a basic example to get you going: gist.github.com/anonymous/7f79807bc6abb00024df – Iata

Awesome! This really helps! – Salmonella

awesome! What about Google Feed API for finding rss page (ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/feed/find), anyone can help me with this. I can't find the way to handle it with YQL – Barque

@Barque I think Google discontinued Feed Find API too. – Iata

This doesn't work, the YQL API is deprecated and deactivated. – Robynroc

Answer 2

Deprecated

My plugin, $.jQRSS uses Google Feed and seems to work just fine, given your exact RSS link:

var rss = 'http://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml';
$.jQRSS(rss, { count: 8 }, function (feed, entries) {
	console.log([feed, entries]);
	$.each(entries, function(i) {
		if (this['content']) {
			var fieldset = $('<fieldset/>', { title: this.contentSnippet }).appendTo('body'),
				legend = $('<legend/>').appendTo(fieldset),
				$link = $('<a />', { href: this.link, html: this.title, target: '_blank' }).appendTo(legend),
				$date = $('<h5 />', { html: this.publishedDate }).appendTo(fieldset),
				$content = $('<div />', { html: this.content }).appendTo(fieldset);
			$content.find('br').remove();
		}
	});
});

fieldset > h5 { float: right; margin-top: 0; }

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://rawgit.com/JDMcKinstry/jQRSS/master/jQRSS.js"></script>

Marti

That's weird. It's working again for me too, but the API is still officially deprecated: developers.google.com/feed – Epithet

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This doesn't work, the API is deprecated and deactivated. – Stebbins

Answer 3

You can use the script feedburner:

<script src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/feeduri?format=sigpro&nItems=10" type="text/javascript"></script>

All information:

https://support.google.com/feedburner/answer/78991?hl=en

Ries

Answer 4

One addition to Tony's solution for using YQL - I needed to change the callback value to JSON_CALLBACK to parse the response properly:

'https://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20xml%20where%20url%20%3D%20\'' + encodeURIComponent(url) + '\'&format=json&env=store%3A%2F%2Fdatatables.org%2Falltableswithkeys&callback=JSON_CALLBACK'

Counterword

This doesn't work, the API is deprecated and deactivated. – Robynroc

Answer 5

You can use PHP to grab a copy of whatever RSS feed you wish to display, then use client side JavaScript to display the results. The main advantage is you're not subject to daily requests limits that way, which most free RSS API services have, or reliability issues.

http://www.javascriptkit.com/dhtmltutors/ajaxticker/index.shtml

Reinforce