Working with RSS Feeds in Node.js code example

Example: Working with RSS Feeds in Node.js

/*
    This code comes from Vincent Lab
    And it has a video version linked here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL6SgDEHH00
*/

// Import dependencies
const fs = require("fs");
const Parser = require("rss-parser");

(async function main() {

    // Make a new RSS Parser
    const parser = new Parser();

    // Get all the items in the RSS feed
    const feed = await parser.parseURL("https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCMA8gVyu_IkVIixXd2p18NQ"); // https://www.reddit.com/.rss

    let items = [];

    // Clean up the string and replace reserved characters
    const fileName = `${feed.title.replace(/\s+/g, "-").replace(/[/\\?%*:|"<>]/g, '').toLowerCase()}.json`;

    if (fs.existsSync(fileName)) {
        items = require(`./${fileName}`);
    }

    // Add the items to the items array
    await Promise.all(feed.items.map(async (currentItem) => {

        // Add a new item if it doesn't already exist
        if (items.filter((item) => isEquivalent(item, currentItem)).length <= 0) {
            items.push(currentItem);
        }

    }));

    // Save the file
    fs.writeFileSync(fileName, JSON.stringify(items));

})();

function isEquivalent(a, b) {
    // Create arrays of property names
    let aProps = Object.getOwnPropertyNames(a);
    let bProps = Object.getOwnPropertyNames(b);

    // if number of properties is different, objects are not equivalent
    if (aProps.length != bProps.length) {
        return false;
    }

    for (let i = 0; i < aProps.length; i++) {
        let propName = aProps[i];

        // if values of same property are not equal, objects are not equivalent
        if (a[propName] !== b[propName]) {
            return false;
        }
    }

    // if we made it this far, objects are considered equivalent
    return true;
}