Howto fetch & parse a RSS Feed with Node.js

FetchRssFeed.js

var _request = require('request');
var _xml2js = require('xml2js').parseString;

function fetchFeed(url, cb){
    _request({
        url: url,
        headers: {
            'User-Agent': '	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0'
        }
    }, function (error, response, xml){

        // valid response ?
        if (!error && response.statusCode == 200){
            // try to parse xml feed
            _xml2js(xml, function (xmlerror, xmldata){
                // error ?
                if (xmlerror){
                    cb(xmlerror, null);
                    return;
                }

                cb(null, xmldata);
            });
        }else{
            cb(error, null);
        }
    });
}


fetchFeed('http://de2.php.net/releases/feed.php', function(err, data){
    if (err){
        console.error(err);
        return;
    }

    console.log(JSON.stringify(data));
});