Parse atom

Parse an Atom feed into entries, links, authors, dates, content, and categories.

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ToolAtom Parser

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How it works

Atom XML becomes feed and entry fields including id, title, link relations, updated or published timestamps, authors, content, and categories. Namespaces distinguish Atom elements from extensions.

Stable ids support deduplication.
Updated times support reader ordering.

Worked example

Parse single-entry Atom feed to JSON

Extract feed title, link, and entry details from an Atom 1.0 XML feed

Input

											<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
  <title>My Blog</title>
  <link href="https://example.com"/>
  <entry>
    <title>Hello World</title>
    <link href="https://example.com/hello"/>
    <updated>2024-01-15T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>First post</summary>
  </entry>
</feed>

Output

												Title: Hello World
ID: 
Link: https://example.com/hello
Updated: 2024-01-15T00:00:00Z
Summary: First post

When to use this

Feed readers, release monitors, and format migrations parse Atom.

Edge cases

An entry without id cannot be safely deduplicated.
HTML and XHTML content types need different interpretation.
Updated is required even when published is absent.

References

RFC 4287