A function that scrapes a set of podcast RSS feeds for the latest mp3s. The function takes no inputs and returns a JS object that looks like this:
{
npr: {
url: "dangus.mp3",
pubDate: "Tue, 08 Dec 2015 17:00:00 -0500"
},
pri: {
url: "flerp.mp3",
pubDate: "Mon, 07 Dec 2015 17:42:19 -0500"
},
bbc-global: {
url: "blahblah.mp3",
pubDate: "Tue, 08 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000"
}
}Adding another RSS feed to the function should be trivial if the RSS feed is well-formed. Otherwise, you may need to define an alternate parsing function; the NPR case is an example that uses an alternate parsing function (see 'nprApiParseFunction'), since we're making a call to their API (see 'rssParseFunction' for the default parser).
This code is hosted by the AWS Lambda service and is exposed via a public API endpoint. The primary client of the endpoint is publicradio.info where it serves the mp3s for the news module on the site.