how to pull new element added to an array?

[sdetweil]

right… you hard coded it…

[justjim1220]

@sdetweil

So, is what I am wanting to do even possible?

[sdetweil]

@justjim1220 sure… just have to figure out how to find the feeds entry from the newsItem entry… you MAY/PROBABLY have to add something to the newsItem entries (every one) when they are placed in the newsItem array…

i can’t look at any of the rss code til thursday sometime…

[justjim1220]

@sdetweil

Is this what I am looking for?

[sdetweil]

Note that that data is not part of the item. What code moves the xml to the Json object you are accessing?

[sdetweil]

looking at the code on my phone, the fetcher.js needs another method to parse out the source icon.

parser.on("image", function(image){})

To set a variable with the icon url,
That u can use in the

parser.on("item", function(item)

To add the icon url to each item to be able to use it during the display process

[A Former User]

@justjim1220
But not all RSS would have that channel.image. that is optional.

[justjim1220]

@sdetweil @sean

SO, I changed this part of the fetcher, but, after reading your posts, I am not sure if this is what you are talking about…

parser.on("item", function(item) {

			var title = item.title;
			var image = item.image || item.logo || item.img || item.svg || "";
			var description = item.description || item.summary || item.content || "";
			var pubdate = item.pubdate || item.published || item.updated || item["dc:date"];
			var url = item.url || item.link || "";

			if (title && pubdate) {

				var regex = /(<([^>]+)>)/ig;
				description = description.toString().replace(regex, "");

				items.push({
					title: title,
					image: image,
					description: description,
					pubdate: pubdate,
					url: url,
				});

			} else if (logFeedWarnings) {
				console.log("Can't parse feed item:");
				console.log(item);
				console.log("Title: " + title);
				console.log("Image: " + image);
				console.log("Description: " + description);
				console.log("Pubdate: " + pubdate);
			}
		});

It is looking like you are telling me I need to add a new section to the fetcher similar to this, but starting with

parser.on("image", function(image){})
			var title = image.title;
			var image = image.image || image.logo || image.img || image.svg || "";
			var url = image.url || image.link || "";

and would I also need this part?

                        if (image&& url) {

				var regex = /(<([^>]+)>)/ig;
				description = description.toString().replace(regex, "");

				images.push({
					title: title,
					image: image,
					url: url,
				});

			} else if (logFeedWarnings) {
				console.log("Can't parse feed item:");
				console.log(item);
				console.log("Title: " + title);
				console.log("Image: " + image);
				console.log("Description: " + description);
				console.log("Pubdate: " + pubdate);
			}
		});

And, would this be the way to add the image url in the config…

                        {
                                imageUrl: "https://static01.nyt.com/images/misc/NYT_logo_rss_250x40.png",
                                title: "New York Times",
				url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
                        },
			{
                                imageUrl: "http://online.wsj.com/img/wsj_sm_logo.gif",
				title: "Wall St. Journal",
				url: "http://www.wsj.com/xml/rss/3_7085.xml"
			},
			{
                                imageUrl: "http://www.gannett-cdn.com/sites/usatnetwork/images/RSS_Syndication_Logo-USATN.png",
				title: "USA Today",
				url: "http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/UsatodaycomNation-TopStories"
			},
			{
                                imageUrl: "https://news.bbcimg.co.uk/nol/shared/img/bbc_news_120x60.gif",
				title: "BBC World News",
				url: "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml#"
			}

Sorry, for all the questions, just really trying to learn all this…
AND, thanks for all your help!!! :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

[sdetweil]

ok, then to use the definition in the feed entry
modify the node helper

			fetcher = new Fetcher(url, reloadInterval, encoding, config.logFeedWarnings);

			fetcher.onReceive(function(fetcher) {
                                // add code here to run thru the array of feed response items and add the icon url to each entry..
                                // the feed definition was passed in as parm to the containing method..   because this is a callback, you will probably have to bind the feed definition to this function
                                for( var item in fetcher.items())
                                {
                                     item.icon=this.feed_def.icon;
                                 }
				self.broadcastFeeds();
			}.bind({feed_def:feed}))

[justjim1220]

@sdetweil

well, sort of lost me there, but also getting a headache.

Gotta run some errands, I’ll look at it some more after a while.

AGAIN, THANK YOU for all the help!!!