feed.description

[zotium]

Hi Paul,

I notice there is no feed.description in feedzirra, is this something
that you are going to include in the near future?

[Paul Dix]

I hadn't planned on it although I guess I could add it in. The list of
elements on feed and feed entries isn't meant to be exhaustive. I was
aiming for the elements that are commonly there and can be found in
both atom and rss feeds. In the meantime you can add them yourself
fairly easily by reopening the feed classes:

class Atom; element :description; end
class RSS; element :description; end
class AtomFeedBurner; element :description; end

I suppose it would be a good idea to make it easy to add custom
elements to all of the feed classes. I think I'll wait to change
anything big until I have time to complete the big refactor.
Thanks,
Paul

[Rick Ong]

Hi Paul!

Thanks for the quick response. Has anyone compared Feedrizza's speed vs Universal Feed Parser (Python) and SimplePie (PHP) ?

Cheers!

Rick Ong
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[Paul Dix]

I'm not aware of a speed comparison between the three. The problem is
that there are a number of things you'd want to compare speed on:
parallel gets
updating feeds you've already fetched
raw parse speed

Anyway, if you're up to it, I would love to see a comparison.

Thanks,
Paul