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How to subscribe to RSS feed?

Open DaRealTurtyWurty opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

I'm not quite understanding how this repository does what it promises. You state the following in the description:

Subscribing to a website RSS removes the need for the user to manually check the website for new content.

This is closely followed by:

This Java RSS parser library makes it easier to automate data extraction from RSS or Atom feeds via Java stream API.

To me, and I would like to believe most people, this suggests that this repository has the capabilities of "subscribing" to an "RSS" feed (henceforth "automating data extraction"). But unless I'm being silly and just completely missing something, this is not possible with this library?

If this could be added, that would be great because otherwise I don't believe it fulfils the description of this repository. Don't get me wrong, this library is very handy nonetheless, but what I would consider the more important part of the library is being able to subscribe to a feed. Otherwise it verges on the edge of not being so useful.

I also cannot help but point out, the fact that it uses the Java Stream API is a weird point to advertise this repository from? Is that really a such a big thing? It's not any different than just giving us a List and us calling List#stream. Generally it feels like a bad idea to just pass streams around since obviously they do need to be closed.

DaRealTurtyWurty avatar Oct 22 '22 16:10 DaRealTurtyWurty