This is how I get a WordPress RSS Feed to use in my Xamarin Forms apps.
- I call the GetRSSFeed() when ever I want to load the RSS Feed from within my Xamarin Forms app.
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks; using System.Xml; using System.Xml.Linq; namespace XamarinWordpressRss { public class RSS { public string item { get; set; } public string title { get; set; } public string link { get; set; } public string description { get; set; } public string content_encoded { get; set; } public DateTime pubDate { get; set; } public int id { get; set; } public async Task<List> GetRSSFeed(){ List rss = new List(); using (var client = new HttpClient) { string baseAddress = "htts://www.somerssfeedwebsite.com/feed"; client.BaseAddress = new Uri(baseAddress); client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear(); var uri = new Uri(string.Format(baseAddress", string.Empty)); XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument(); var resp = await client.GetAsync(uri); if (resp.IsSuccessStatusCode) { var xml = await resp.Content.ReadAsStringAsync(); XNamespace content = "URI"; var items = XDocument.Parse(xml) .Descendants("item") .Select(i => new { Title = (string)i.Element("title"), Description = (string)i.Element("description"), Link = (string)i.Element("link"), Encoded = (string)i.Element(content + "encoded"), PubDate = (string)i.Element("pubDate") }).ToList().OrderBy(r => r.Title); // int id = 1; foreach (var item in items) { RSS c = new RSS(); c.title = item.Title; c.description = item.Description; c.content_encoded = item.Encoded; c.link = item.Link; c.pubDate = Convert.ToDateTime(item.PubDate); c.id = id; rss.Add(c); } } else { } } return rss; } } }
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