I’m trying to piece together an RSS reader to pull in a news feed. I’ve got it mostly working using bits and pieces of code from the several posts on the subject. I call it Frankenfeed.
The only problem is Frankenfeed does not really know what to do with escaped characters, so when I access the description tag for instance I am getting all the unescaped data such as < > < ’ "
So my question is I don’t suppose there is something as simple as an “unescape” or htmlspecialchars_decode for Lua/Corona text? Or perhaps a module someone has written or a function to do this? I have not been able to find one so far. Or is there already a recommended module for pulling news from a standard rss feed with item, title, link, description, pubdate? I’ve seen a lot of the posts on the subject, most of them were just bits and pieces which did not fully do the job and that’s kind of how Frankenfeed came to live. But maybe I missed the recent full blown “here is your new rss parser” post.
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