RSS Connector

The RSSConnector

The RSSConnector allows you to publish Documents representing the items found in an RSS feed of your choice. Each Document will (optionally) contain fields from the RSS items, like the author, description, title, etc. By default, the Document IDs will be the item’s guid, which should be a unique identifier for the RSS item.

You can configure the RSSConnector to only publish recent RSS items, based on the pubDate found on the items. Also, it can run incrementally, refreshing the RSS feed after a certain amount of time until you manually stop it. The RSSConnector will avoid publishing Documents for the same RSS item more than once.

The Documents published may have any of the following fields, depending on how the RSS feed is structured:

• author (String)
• categories (List<String>)
• comments (List<String>)
• content (String)
• description (String)
• enclosures (List<JsonNode>). Each JsonNode contains:
  • type (String)
  • url (String)
  • May contain length (Long)
• guid (String)
• isPermaLink (Boolean)
• link (String)
• title (String)
• pubDate (Instant)