[Plugin: HungryFEED] How to display other elements from feed

Well, hungryfeed makes it easy to access the standard RSS fields but if the feed has extra non-standard fields then you have to use the data array to display them. To be honest it can be tricky to figure out the path because the RSS array structure is so many levels deep including the xml namespaces and everything

here is an example of a data path to get the the “source” url:

{{data[‘child’][”][‘source’][0][‘attribs’][‘url’]}}

here’s an example from iTunes for getting the “price” field of an app:

data[‘child’][‘http://itunes.apple.com/rss’%5D%5B‘price’%5D%5B‘0’%5D%5B‘data’%5D

you can use show_data=”1″ (make sure you have the underscore) to have hunryfeed output the raw data array and then you have to do a little detective work to figure out the path to the field that you want.

hope that helps?

it looks like it could be something like this:

data[‘child’][‘http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/’%5D%5B‘date’%5D%5B0%5D%5B‘data’%5D

unfortunately it’s kinda hard to figure out without some experimenting. i’d like to find a better way to handle that but at the moment i’m not sure I have any great solutions for that extra data

Well at the moment HungryFEED doesn’t have any capability because it just treats everything like text. but i think there are two options that would work.

1. add some custom javascript in the HungryFEED settings to look for those dates, parse and re-format them. that wouldn’t be too difficult to write for anybody that knows javascript, expecially with jquery.

2. see if yahoo-pipes offers a feature to process data before it’s returned…? I don’t know if that’s possible but perhaps it’s worth investigating?

the template would be something like this, giving your value a class name so it can be located in the javascript:

<div class="timeField">{{yourtimefield}}</div>

then the javascript would be something like this using jquery, you’d have to write the time parsing function, you could probably find somebody on stackexchange to help with that

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){

  $('.timeField').each(function(index)
  {
    var oldTime = $(this).html();
    var newTime = oldTime.split('T')[0]; // (provide your time parsing code here)
    $(this).html(newTime);
  });

 });
</script>