(PowerShell) Read RSS Feed

Sample code showing how to read an RSS feed and emit the contents.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-9.5.0-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$rss = New-Object Chilkat.Rss

# Download from the feed URL:
$success = $rss.DownloadRss("http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml")
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($rss.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# Get the 1st channel.
$rssChannel = $rss.GetChannel(0)
if ($rss.LastMethodSuccess -eq $false) {
    $("No channel found in RSS feed.")
    exit
}

# Display the various pieces of information about the channel:
$("Title: " + $rssChannel.GetString("title"))
$("Link: " + $rssChannel.GetString("link"))
$("Description: " + $rssChannel.GetString("description"))

# For each item in the channel, display the title, link,
# publish date, and categories assigned to the post.
$numItems = $rssChannel.NumItems

for ($i = 0; $i -le $numItems - 1; $i++) {
    $rssItem = $rssChannel.GetItem($i)

    $("----")
    $("Title: " + $rssItem.GetString("title"))
    $("Link: " + $rssItem.GetString("link"))
    $("pubDate: " + $rssItem.GetString("pubDate"))

    $numCategories = $rssItem.GetCount("category")

    if ($numCategories -gt 0) {
        for ($j = 0; $j -le $numCategories - 1; $j++) {
            $("    category: " + $rssItem.MGetString("category",$j))
        }

    }

}