Fetch Rss API

Fetch Rss Api

Overview

Build Node.js clients that fetch RSS or Atom feeds and REST APIs with robust auth, pagination, and error handling. Produce clear, dependency-aware code and explain integration assumptions.

Workflow

1. Clarify requirements

• Ask for feed URL(s) or API base URL plus endpoints.
• Ask for auth type (API key, OAuth, Basic) and required headers or scopes.
• Ask for pagination style, rate limits, and update frequency.
• Ask for output shape, sorting, deduping, and storage target.

2. Choose approach

• Prefer Node 18+ built-in fetch and AbortController.
• Use undici or node-fetch only if the Node version requires it.
• Pick RSS parser; use rss-parser for simple RSS or Atom, otherwise parse XML with fast-xml-parser.

3. Implement and integrate

• Build a small fetch wrapper with timeout, retries, and JSON or XML parsing.
• Handle 3xx, 4xx, 5xx with clear errors and retry or backoff on 429 or 5xx.
• Normalize feed and API items to a common schema before returning.

4. Validate and harden

• Add logging hooks and sample output.
• Include dependency install commands and env var list.
• Provide a quick test command and example response.

Common tasks

Fetch RSS or Atom

• Use references/rss.md for parser choice, caching headers, and item normalization.

Call REST APIs

• Use references/rest-api.md for auth, pagination, rate limits, and retries.

Combine RSS and REST

• Merge by GUID or URL, dedupe by canonical link, and sort by published date.
• Use ETag or Last-Modified to avoid reprocessing.

Output expectations

• Provide runnable Node.js code (ESM by default; note CJS if needed).
• List dependencies and install commands.
• Call out required environment variables and secrets.

References

• references/rss.md for feed parsing patterns and caching headers.
• references/rest-api.md for REST client patterns and resiliency.