perlquestion xdg I tried [Super Search] to see if this had been discussed, but most of the deluge of RSS questions seem to consist of "I'm trying to scrape RSS and I'm clueless, please help" so I gave up in frustration. Apologies if I missed something obvious somewhere. I'm not clueless and I've been working with RSS for a while now (c.f [id://340820]), and I'm a little frustrated with various incompatibilties and breakage that I encounter dealing with people's feeds. I'm currently using combinations of [mod://XML::RSS] and [mod://XML::RAI] -- though largely because that's what I started with. So my questions are these: <ol> <li>What modules for RSS parsing have people found to be the most robust and stable (given unreliable, non-standard input feeds)?</li> <li>What modules best parse all the various feed standards? (E.g. [mod://XML::RSS] docs are inconsistent about RSS 2.0 support)</li> <li>What modules best produce all the various feed standards?</li> <li>What pre-processing have people found helpful in cleaning up non-standard feeds to keep [mod://XML::Parser] and the like from giving up on errors?</li> </ol> On that last point, I'll share my own helpful snippet. I'm currently doing a rather hackish bit with a regex and [mod://HTML::Entities::Numbered] to fix up some of the broken encodings that I'm commonly finding on various feeds that was breaking [mod://XML::Parser]. YMMV. <code> $content =~ s/(&#\d+);?/$1;/g; $content = name2decimal_xml( $content ); </code> Thanks, <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-268515"> -xdg Code written by xdg and posted on PerlMonks is <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain">public domain</a>. It is provided as is with no warranties, express or implied, of any kind. Posted code may not have been tested. Use of posted code is at your own risk. </div></div>