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function execute() { | |
var url = "http://feeds.labnol.org/labnol"; //RSS Feed to parse | |
main(url); | |
} | |
function main(url) { | |
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet(); | |
var property = PropertiesService.getDocumentProperties(); | |
var last_update = property.getProperty('last_update'); | |
last_update = last_update === null ? 0 : parseFloat(last_update); | |
var feed = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url).getContentText(); | |
var items = getItems(feed); | |
var i = items.length - 1; | |
while (i > -1) { | |
var item = items[i--]; | |
var date = new Date(item.getChildText('pubDate')); | |
if (date.getTime() > last_update) { | |
insertRow(item, sheet); | |
} | |
} | |
property.setProperty('last_update', date.getTime()); | |
} | |
function getItems(feed) { | |
var doc = XmlService.parse(feed); | |
var root = doc.getRootElement(); | |
var channel = root.getChild('channel'); | |
var items = channel.getChildren('item'); | |
return items; | |
} | |
function insertRow(item, sheet) { | |
var title = item.getChildText('title'); | |
var url = item.getChildText('link'); | |
var author = item.getChildText('author'); | |
var date = new Date(item.getChildText('pubDate')); | |
sheet.insertRowBefore(2); | |
sheet.getRange('B2:E2').setValues([[title, url, author, date.toLocaleString()]]); | |
} |
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