read and parse RSS feed
require 'open-uri' require 'rss/0.9' require 'rss/1.0' require 'rss/2.0' require 'rss/parser' url = 'http://some.host/rss.xml' rss = RSS::Parser.parse(open(url){|fd|fd.read}) puts rss.items.collect{|item|item.title}.join("\n")
See also simple-rss at rubyforge.