Ruby-Feedparser is an RSS and Atom parser for Ruby. It was initially developed for Feed2Imap, but it is now a standalone library. Ruby-feedparser is : based on REXML built for robustness : most feeds are not valid, a parser can't ignore that fully unit-tested easy to use (it can output text or HTML easily) To learn more about syndication, RSS and Atom, read : Wikipedia: Web feed Wikipedia: RSS (fi