In version 4.3, feed-io now gets the ability to discover feeds included in the head section of a HTML page. For instance, browse to https://php.net and take a look at the page’s sources. You’ll see something like this in the head section :
<title>PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor</title>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="https://php.net/favicon.ico">
<link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="http://php.net/phpnetimprovedsearch.src" title="Add PHP.net search">
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://php.net/releases/feed.php" title="PHP Release feed">
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://php.net/feed.atom" title="PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor">
The interesting parts of it are the two <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" /> tags.
feed-io now gives you the ability to discover them with a few lines of code :
$feedIo = \FeedIo\Factory::create()->getFeedIo();
$feeds = $feedIo->discover($url);
foreach( $feeds as $feed ) {
echo "discovered feed : {$feed}";
}
And there’s more. You can also get them using its command-line interface :
./vendor/bin/feedio discover http://php.net
Which outputs :
Discovering feeds from http://php.net
found : http://php.net/releases/feed.php
found : http://php.net/feed.atom
That means you can now get all available feeds from a website before consuming them.