Reading an RSS 2 feed with Ruby

[adrained]

Hey there,

So I'm trying to use RSS:Parse to read in a RSS file from flickr

here's my current code. The problems is elements under item that are like "media:category"

how do I call these elements, and how do I get attributes of elements as well .

Here's my current code (not final, just trying to get it working before I prettify), which works if I take out the the item.media:category line

unless photostream.tags.blank? and flickruser.nil?
	  open(flickr_RSS_uri) do |http|
      		response = http.read
      		result = RSS::Parser.parse(response, false)
      		result.items.each_with_index do |item, i|
      		%>
	        	 <%=item.link%>
	        	 <%=item.title%>
	        	 <%=item.media:category%>
	        	 <%
		end
	  end
end

thanks

[Fenrir2]

media:category is not valid Ruby syntax. Could you give an example flickr RSS feed you're trying to read?

Is this a Rails template? You should put the rss reading code in your controller ;-).

[adrained]

Yes I am aware it is not valid ruby syntax, and yes it will go into the controller, this was just a mere convenience.

Here's an example of the RSS
http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds...format=rss_200

I've been playing with a different parse which is easier and doesn't have these problems, but still curious how to do it with RSS::PARSER

[Fenrir2]

I think it isn't possible:

irb(main):020:0> puts RSS::Parser.parse('http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/ph
otos_public.gne?id=40040707109@N01&format=rss_200', false).items.first
<item>
  <title>light at the end</title>
  <link>http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuffandnonsense/350010253/</link>
  <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/people/stuffandno
nsense/&quot;&gt;drain&lt;/a&gt; posted a photo:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuffandnonsense/35001025
3/&quot; title=&quot;light at the end&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm1.st
atic.flickr.com/133/350010253_11c594ac01_m.jpg&quot; width=&quot;180&quot; heigh
t=&quot;240&quot; alt=&quot;light at the end&quot; style=&quot;border: 1px solid
 #ddd;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

</description>
  <category>tunnel baths sutro sfchronicle 96hours sfchronicle96hours</category>

  <author>nobody@flickr.com (drain)</author>
  <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:47:28 +0100</pubDate>
  <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/350010253</guid>
</item>
=> nil

The media:category has disappeared.