Fetch the contents of RSS feed updates on https://updates.snyk.io website into an array of objects

fetch-updates-snyk-io-website.js

// This function will find all elements with the class "changelogItem published"
// and extract the desired information, including preserving only links in the content body.
function extractNewsItems() {
    // Get all elements with the class "changelogItem published"
    const items = document.querySelectorAll('.changelogItem.published');

    // Initialize an empty array to hold the news items
    const newsItems = [];

    // Function to process content to keep only text and anchor tags
    function processContent(contentElement) {
        let finalContent = '';
        // Loop over all child nodes of the content element
        for (const node of contentElement.childNodes) {
            if (node.nodeType === Node.ELEMENT_NODE && node.tagName === 'A') {
                // If it's an anchor element, keep it as HTML
                finalContent += node.outerHTML;
            } else if (node.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE) {
                // If it's a text node, append its content
                finalContent += node.nodeValue;
            } else {
                // For all other types of elements, recurse to handle nested elements
                finalContent += processContent(node);
            }
        }
        return finalContent;
    }

    // Iterate over each item and extract information
    items.forEach(item => {
        const title = item.querySelector('h2.title a').textContent; // Extract the title
        const datePublished = item.querySelector('.articleMeta time').getAttribute('datetime'); // Extract the publication date
        const contentElement = item.querySelector('.content'); // Get the content element
        const contentBody = processContent(contentElement); // Process the content to keep only text and links

        // Create an object with the extracted information and push it into the array
        newsItems.push({
            title: title,
            datePublished: datePublished,
            contentBody: contentBody
        });
    });

    // Return the array of news items
    return newsItems;
}

// Execute the function and log the result to the console
console.log(extractNewsItems());