Types

This package provides a number of Go struct types with field tags for XML marshalling. There are standard RSS 2.0, iTunes and many of the Podcasting 2.0 tags available.

Install

There is no stable release yet, and backwards-incompatible changes may still be introduced. But if you want to try it, you can simply do

go get github.com/rssblue/types

Example

Code

package main

import (
  "encoding/xml"
  "fmt"
  "time"

  "github.com/rssblue/types"
)

func main() {
  rss := types.RSS{
    NamespaceITunes:  true,
    NamespacePodcast: true,
    Channel: types.Channel{
      Title: pointer("Bookworm Podcast"),
      Description: &types.Description{
        Description: "Podcast about <em>books</em>.",
        IsCDATA:     true,
      },
      Language:     pointer("en"),
      ITunesAuthor: pointer("John"),
      ITunesOwner: &types.ITunesOwner{
        Name:  "John",
        Email: "john@example.com",
      },
      ITunesImage: &types.ITunesImage{
        URL: "https://example.com/cover-art.png",
      },
      ITunesCategories: []types.ITunesCategory{
        {
          Category: "Arts",
        },
      },
      ITunesType:  pointer("episodic"),
      PodcastGUID: pointer(types.PodcastGUID("cda647ce-56b8-5d7c-9448-ba1993ab46b7")),
      Items: []types.Item{
        {
          Title: pointer("Book Review: Moby-Dick"),
          Enclosure: &types.Enclosure{
            URL:      "https://example.com/moby-dick.mp3",
            Length:   4096,
            Mimetype: "audio/mpeg",
          },
          GUID:              &types.GUID{GUID: "https://example.com/moby-dick"},
          ITunesEpisodeType: pointer("full"),
          PubDate:           pointer(types.Date(time.Date(2022, time.July, 23, 10, 30, 0, 0, time.UTC))),
          PodcastLocation: &types.PodcastLocation{
            OSM: &types.PodcastOSM{
              Type:      'R',
              FeatureID: 2396248,
            },
          },
        },
      },
    },
  }

  output, err := xml.MarshalIndent(&rss, "", "  ")
  if err != nil {
    panic(err)
  }

  fmt.Printf("%s%s\n", xml.Header, output)

}

func pointer[T any](v T) *T {
  return &v
}

Output

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:podcast="https://podcastindex.org/namespace/1.0">
  <channel>
    <description><![CDATA[Podcast about <em>books</em>.]]></description>
    <language>en</language>
    <title>Bookworm Podcast</title>
    <itunes:author>John</itunes:author>
    <itunes:category text="Arts"></itunes:category>
    <itunes:image href="https://example.com/cover-art.png"></itunes:image>
    <itunes:owner>
      <itunes:name>John</itunes:name>
      <itunes:email>john@example.com</itunes:email>
    </itunes:owner>
    <itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type>
    <podcast:guid>cda647ce-56b8-5d7c-9448-ba1993ab46b7</podcast:guid>
    <item>
      <enclosure url="https://example.com/moby-dick.mp3" length="4096" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
      <guid>https://example.com/moby-dick</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2022 10:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>Book Review: Moby-Dick</title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <podcast:location osm="R2396248"></podcast:location>
    </item>
  </channel>
</rss>