Google Feed Loader API ignoring XML attributes

google-feed-api, jquery, json, rss, xml

Solution

The 'enclosure' tag is not included in the JSON response, so you have two options setting the output argument:

You need to set the output to 'XML': https://developers.google.com/feed/v1/jsondevguide#json_args

url = 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/feed/load?v=1.0&output=xml&num=10&callback=?&q='+ encodeURIComponent(url);

Or use the mixed format: https://developers.google.com/feed/v1/devguide#resultMixed

url = 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/feed/load?v=1.0&output=json_xml&num=10&callback=?&q='+ encodeURIComponent(url);

You´ll get the JSON plus a a new xmlString property with all the tags (including 'enclosure' attributes)

alert(d.responseData.xmlString);

In both cases you need to parse the XML string and navigate to the needed info

Hope this helps

Problem

Google's feed loader appears to be ignoring attributes when converting to JSON. I'm using jQuery to grab a feed via AJAX. The actual RSS XML feed can be seen here, and the response from the AJAX call can be seen here. I need to access the `url`attribute of the `<enclosure>` tags, but neither appear in the response. For reference, the code I am using is: ``` function getFeed(url) { url = 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/feed/load?v=1.0&num=10&callback=?&q=' + encodeURIComponent(url); $.ajax({ type: 'GET', url: url, dataType: 'jsonp', cache: false, success: function(d) { alert(JSON.stringify(d); }, error: function(s,x) { alert(x); } }); } ``` I can't figure out how to get an XML response instead, as changing `dataType : 'xml'` causes an HTTP error. JSON is preferable. Any ideas?

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