RSS Reader

Simple command-line based RSS feed reader

import java.net.URL;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.CharacterData;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

public class RSSReader {

	private static RSSReader instance = null;

	private RSSReader() {
	}

	public static RSSReader getInstance() {
		if(instance == null) {
			instance = new RSSReader();
		}
		return instance;
	}

	public void getFeeds() {
		try {
			DocumentBuilder builder = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
			URL u = new URL("http://www.tyrvaansanomat.fi/cs/Satellite?c=AMChannelFeed_C&cid=1194597805463&p=1192554120774&pagename=KOS_newssite%2FAMChannelFeed_C%2FLatest10ArticlesRSS20");

			Document doc = builder.parse(u.openStream());

			NodeList nodes = doc.getElementsByTagName("item");

			for(int i=0;i<nodes.getLength();i++) {
				Element element = (Element)nodes.item(i);

				String title = getElementValue(element,"title");
				if (title.length() > 43) {
					title = title.substring(0, 40);
					title += "...";
				}
				while(title.length() < 43)
					title += " ";

				String link = getElementValue(element,"link");
				if (link.length() > 43) {
					link = link.substring(0, 40);
					link += "...";
				}
				while(link.length() < 43)
					link += " ";

				String pubDate = getElementValue(element,"pubDate");
				if (pubDate.length() > 43) {
					pubDate = pubDate.substring(0, 40);
					pubDate += "...";
				}
				while(pubDate.length() < 43)
					pubDate += " ";

				String author = getElementValue(element,"dc:creator");
				if (author.length() > 43) {
					author = author.substring(0, 40);
					author += "...";
				}
				while(author.length() < 43)
					author += " ";

				String comments = getElementValue(element,"wfw:comment");
				if (comments.length() > 43) {
					comments = comments.substring(0, 47);
					comments += "...";
				}
				while(comments.length() < 43)
					comments += " ";

				String description = getElementValue(element,"description");
				if (description.length() > 43) {
					String tmp = description.substring(43);
					if (tmp.length() > 54) {
						tmp = tmp.substring(0, 54);
						tmp += "...";
					}
					while(tmp.length() < 57)
						tmp += " ";
					description = description.substring(0, 43);
					description += "|\n|";
					description += tmp;
				}

				System.out.println(".---------------------------------------------------------.");
				System.out.println("|Title:        " + title +                               "|");
				System.out.println("|Link:         " + link +                                "|");
				System.out.println("|Publish Date: " + pubDate +                             "|");
				System.out.println("|author:       " + author +                              "|");
				System.out.println("|comments:     " + comments +                            "|");
				System.out.println("|description:  " + description +                         "|");
				System.out.println("'---------------------------------------------------------'");
				System.out.println();
			}
		}
		catch(Exception ex) {
			ex.printStackTrace();
		}

	}

	private String getCharacterDataFromElement(Element e) {
		try {
			Node child = e.getFirstChild();
			if(child instanceof CharacterData) {
				CharacterData cd = (CharacterData) child;
			return cd.getData();
			}
		} catch(Exception ex) {
		}
		return "";
	}

	protected String getElementValue(Element parent,String label) {
		return getCharacterDataFromElement((Element)parent.getElementsByTagName(label).item(0));
	}

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		RSSReader reader = RSSReader.getInstance();
		reader.getFeeds();
	}
}