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by jbyers · 9:37 pm · 1 comments

For years, I’ve been using Magpie for parsing RSS and Atom feeds in various PHP projects. As of today, no more - it’s SimplePie from here on out. Magpie’s done well thus far, but it’s slipped into disrepair and lacks some key features that SimplePie does right out of the box:

  • Full normalization between RSS and Atom
  • Complete Atom 1.0 support
  • Enclosure support (MP3s and videos found in feeds)
  • Straightforward caching plugins
  • Active development, lots of unit tests, BSD licensing

SimplePie’s not perfect — we’ll likely be logging issues about error logging and feed URL scrubbing - but I think it’s well on the way to becoming the go-to PHP feed parser.