Error: Non-whitespace before first tag

Hello,

I'm trying to parse an RSS url from a WordPress blog and getting the following error message on let feed = await parser.parseURL('https://mywordpressblog.com/feed'). The weird thing is that this was working, and I'm sure I haven't changed that part of the code recently.

Error: Non-whitespace before first tag.
Line: 0
Column: 1
Char:

I found issue #95 , and tried using some xml2js passthrough options that I found relevant without success. I've also tried all the options listed below isolated one by one.

const parser = new Parser({
    xml2js: {
      trim: true,
      normalize: true,
      includeWhiteChars: false
    }
})

While googling, some people seemed to have issues with their files being incorrectly encoded. Looking through the Linux terminal trying to determine the encoding, file -i bot.js returns bot.js: text/plain; charset=utf-8, and uchardet bot.js returns ISO-8859-15 which seems a bit weird to me.

I tried to convert the file encoding through the Linux terminal with iconv -f ISO-8859-15 -t UTF-8 bot.js -o bot2.js. Now both file -i bot2.js and uchardet bot2.js says utf-8, but I still receive the same error message when running the code.

I'm coding in Visual Studio Code and I've tried both re-opening and saving as UTF-8 and UTF-8 with BOM to no avail.

I should add that this error occurs both on my development machine, and on the production. I'm at loss here, anyone got any suggestions?

Thank you in advance, Mattias

rbren / rss-parser

Error: Non-whitespace before first tag #194