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RSS/Atom parsing. So fun.

```
const link = isNotAtom
\t? feed.rss.channel.link.attr_href ?? feed.rss.channel.link['#text']
\t: feed.feed.link.length > 1
\t\t? feed.feed.link[0].attr_rel == \"alternate\"
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Yes I know there are libraries that can do it for me. Yes I'm choosing to do this. Yes I'm having fun while also gritting my teeth.

Coding is weird.

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@mstrkapowski yeah for some reason I chose? To let a package parse the XML? But to parse the RSS myself? I'm not sure why.

But it's all puzzles all the way down, and you can choose how much of the puzzle you want to complete, I guess..

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