feedparser/examples/iconv.js

/**
 * Tips
 * ====
 * - Set `user-agent` and `accept` headers when sending requests. Some services will not respond as expected without them.
 * - Set `pool` to false if you send lots of requests using "request" library.
 */

var request = require('request')
  , FeedParser = require(__dirname+'/..')
  , Iconv = require('iconv').Iconv;

function fetch(feed) {
  // Define our streams
  var req = request(feed, {timeout: 10000, pool: false});
  req.setMaxListeners(50);
  // Some feeds do not respond without user-agent and accept headers.
  req.setHeader('user-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.63 Safari/537.36')
     .setHeader('accept', 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml');

  var feedparser = new FeedParser();

  // Define our handlers
  req.on('error', done);
  req.on('response', function(res) {
    if (res.statusCode != 200) return this.emit('error', new Error('Bad status code'));
    var charset = getParams(res.headers['content-type'] || '').charset;
    res = maybeTranslate(res, charset);
    // And boom goes the dynamite
    res.pipe(feedparser);
  });

  feedparser.on('error', done);
  feedparser.on('end', done);
  feedparser.on('readable', function() {
    var post;
    while (post = this.read()) {
      console.log(post);
    }
  });
}

function maybeTranslate (res, charset) {
  var iconv;
  // Use iconv if its not utf8 already.
  if (!iconv && charset && !/utf-*8/i.test(charset)) {
    try {
      iconv = new Iconv(charset, 'utf-8');
      console.log('Converting from charset %s to utf-8', charset);
      iconv.on('error', done);
      // If we're using iconv, stream will be the output of iconv
      // otherwise it will remain the output of request
      res = res.pipe(iconv);
    } catch(err) {
      res.emit('error', err);
    }
  }
  return res;
}

function getParams(str) {
  var params = str.split(';').reduce(function (params, param) {
    var parts = param.split('=').map(function (part) { return part.trim(); });
    if (parts.length === 2) {
      params[parts[0]] = parts[1];
    }
    return params;
  }, {});
  return params;
}

function done(err) {
  if (err) {
    console.log(err, err.stack);
    return process.exit(1);
  }
  server.close();
  process.exit();
}

// Don't worry about this. It's just a localhost file server so you can be
// certain the "remote" feed is available when you run this example.
var server = require('http').createServer(function (req, res) {
  var stream = require('fs').createReadStream(require('path').resolve(__dirname, '../test/feeds' + req.url));
  res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/xml; charset=Windows-1251');
  stream.pipe(res);
});
server.listen(0, function () {
  fetch('http://localhost:' + this.address().port + '/iconv.xml');
});