RSS Reading into Unity Example

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Oddly, I have had emails from people asking about XML and possibly reading RSS files, most of them use it for an interaction between the forums they have and in their game, so I figured that I would post an example here in the forums, might get around to putting this in the wiki later if I make it a lot more dynamic, this example package though, reads the Unity RSS feed and prints to the debug window the RSS data, this is just so you can get a feeling on how simple this really is to do.

393045–13489–$rssexampleproject_945.unitypackage (5.2 KB)

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I think I love you. Can’t believe this thread hasn’t gotten more attention. Been trying to do this for two days to no avail. Saved me big time. Thanks!

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Thanks a lot!!..I was looking for something precisely like this…I had to tailor it to my needs, but the base code really helped me understand how RSS integration in unity works!!!

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zumwalt - you are a beast! I made several attempts at XML deserialization efforts and they’d only partially re-route the values I needed.

I even tried using a Unity Wiki method - http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php?title=Saving_and_Loading_Data:_XmlSerializer

Thanks again
-OJ

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Thanks! Very nice way to do this and easy to understand.

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Here is an improved version for redundancy of different RSS feeds containing different things, thanks Zumwalt for the boost.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Xml;

public class rssreader
{
    XmlTextReader rssReader;
    XmlDocument rssDoc;
    XmlNode nodeRss;
    XmlNode nodeChannel;
    XmlNode nodeItem;
    public channel rowNews;
  
    // this is the root channel information within the RSS
    // I have supplied the fields here that are in the UNITY RSS feed
    public struct channel
    {
        public string title;
        public string link;
        public string description;
        public string docs;
        public string managingEditor;
        public string webMaster;
        public string lastBuildDate;
        // this is our collection of RSS items
        public List<items> item;
    }
  
    // again, all values here are the same as what exists in the UNITY RSS feed
    public struct items
    {
        public string title;
        public string category;
        public string creator;
        public string guid;
        public string link;
        public string pubDate;
        public string description;
    }  
  
    // our constructor takes the URL to the feed
    public rssreader (string feedURL)
    {
        // setup the channel structure
        rowNews = new channel ();
        // make the list available to write to
        rowNews.item = new List<items>();
        rssReader = new XmlTextReader (feedURL);
        rssDoc = new XmlDocument ();
        rssDoc.Load (rssReader);
        // Loop for the <rss> tag
        if(rssDoc != null)
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < rssDoc.ChildNodes.Count; i++)
            {
                // If it is the rss tag
                if (rssDoc.ChildNodes[i].Name == "rss") {
                    // <rss> tag found
                    nodeRss = rssDoc.ChildNodes[i];
                }
            }
        }
          
        // Loop for the <channel> tag
        if(nodeRss != null)
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < nodeRss.ChildNodes.Count; i++)
            {
                // If it is the channel tag
                if (nodeRss.ChildNodes[i].Name == "channel")
                {
                    // <channel> tag found
                    nodeChannel = nodeRss.ChildNodes[i];
                }
            }
        }

        // this is our channel header information
        if(rowNews.title != null)
        {
            rowNews.title = nodeChannel["title"].InnerText;
        }
        if(rowNews.link != null)
        {
            rowNews.link = nodeChannel["link"].InnerText;
        }
        if(rowNews.description != null)
        {
            rowNews.description = nodeChannel["description"].InnerText;
        }
        if(rowNews.docs != null)
        {
            rowNews.docs = nodeChannel["docs"].InnerText;
        }
        if(rowNews.lastBuildDate != null)
        {
            rowNews.lastBuildDate = nodeChannel["lastBuildDate"].InnerText;
        }
        if(rowNews.managingEditor != null)
        {
            rowNews.managingEditor = nodeChannel["managingEditor"].InnerText;
        }
        if(rowNews.webMaster != null)
        {
            rowNews.webMaster = nodeChannel["webMaster"].InnerText;
        }

        // here we have our feed items
        if(nodeChannel != null)
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < nodeChannel.ChildNodes.Count; i++)
            {
                if (nodeChannel.ChildNodes[i].Name == "item")
                {
                    nodeItem = nodeChannel.ChildNodes[i];
                    // create an empty item to fill
                    items itm = new items();
                    if(nodeItem.InnerXml.Contains("title"))
                    {
                        itm.title = nodeItem["title"].InnerText;
                    }
                    if(nodeItem.InnerXml.Contains("link"))
                    {
                        itm.link = nodeItem["link"].InnerText;
                    }
                    if(nodeItem.InnerXml.Contains("category"))
                    {
                        itm.category = nodeItem["category"].InnerText;
                    }
                    if(nodeItem.InnerXml.Contains("dc:creator"))
                    {
                        itm.creator = nodeItem["dc:creator"].InnerText;
                    }
                    if(nodeItem.InnerXml.Contains("guid"))
                    {
                        itm.guid = nodeItem["guid"].InnerText;
                    }
                    if(nodeItem.InnerXml.Contains("pubDate"))
                    {
                        itm.pubDate = nodeItem["pubDate"].InnerText;
                    }
                    if(nodeItem.InnerXml.Contains("description"))
                    {
                        itm.description = nodeItem["description"].InnerText;
                    }
                    // add the item to the channel items list
                    rowNews.item.Add(itm);
                }
            }
        }

    }
}
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Aye, still working noice in 2020 - cheers, dude!!

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