node-comics-feed

RSS feeds of comics sites usually contains the links to a webpage but not the strip images.
This module iterates on the items on a feed and parse the webpages to create a new feed with embedded comic strips.

Supported websites:

• GoComics
• Dilbert.com

The list of parsers is meant to be extensible, see lib/parser.js.
PRs are welcome.

Inspired by gocomics-scrape and implemented it using Node.

Usage

npm install comics-feed
comics-feed [.rss|url]

Turns this

into this

(rendered by Firefox)

Tested on

http://feed.dilbert.com/dilbert/daily_strip
http://feeds.feedburner.com/uclick/dilbert-classics

TODO

• error handling
  • invalid URL
  • malformed feed
  • scraping error
• adds pubDate for items
• re-entrance
• module globals cleanup

SAAS on Heroku

heroku-comics-feed uses this module to provide a subscribable RSS service.