Feed validator
Simple validator for feeds like RSS or Atom. Supports opensearch.xml validation. Based on validator.w3.org/feed
Supports plugins for custom checks
Installation
npm install [-g] feed-validator
Usage
usage: feed-validator [-h] [-v] [-c FILE_PATH] [-r REPORTER_NAME]
[--no-colors]
url
Simple validator for RSS, Atom or opensearch.xml that using validator.w3.
org/feed and plugins
Positional arguments:
url Feed url or file-path to validate
Optional arguments:
-h, --help Show this help message and exit.
-v, --version Show program's version number and exit.
-c FILE_PATH, --config FILE_PATH
Config file path
-r REPORTER_NAME, --reporter REPORTER_NAME
Reporter name: text, json
--no-colors Don't use colors
--no-showfeed Don't show the feed content
Arguments and options
Options can be defined by command line and configuration file.
url
URL or file-path of the validated feed.
config
Configuration file. Can be passed from command line. Example of config file see in examples
folder.
reporter
Reporter type: text or JSON. Can be defined in command line: --reporter json
or in config file: reporter: 'json'
noColors
Don't use colors in report. Can be passed from command line: --no-colors
and from config file: noColors: true
.
noShowFeed
Don't show the feed's xml content in the report. Can be passed from command line: --no-showfeed
and from config file: noShowFeed: true
.
suppress
You can suppress some messages by defining objects that contains fields to match in config file. Example of suppressing:
suppress: level: 'error' text: 'Unexpected method attribute on Url element' level: 'warning' type: 'ShouldIncludeExample'
plugins
Can be defined in config file (see examples
). Each plugin is function that take JSON feed representation and returns errors,
warnings and information messages list.
Plugin function example:
/** * Check HTTPS in urls from opensearch.xml * @param * @param */ { var path = 'OpenSearchDescription.Url'; var urls = _; var errors = ; if !urls errors; _; return errors;}
You should define level
and text
fields. And you can define your own custom type
field.