feat: add URL fetching with conditional GET support#51
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- SimpleRSS.fetch(url) - fetch and parse feeds directly from URLs
- Conditional GET with etag: and last_modified: options
- Returns nil on 304 Not Modified for efficient polling
- Options: timeout:, headers:, follow_redirects:
- Automatically follows redirects (up to 5)
- Stores ETag and Last-Modified headers on parsed feed
Usage:
rss = SimpleRSS.fetch("https://example.com/feed.xml")
# Later, conditional fetch:
rss = SimpleRSS.fetch(url, etag: rss.etag)
# Returns nil if unchanged
Closes #46
Replace legacy README.markdown with modern README.md following open source standards. Adds badges, structured sections, and complete API reference covering all features including the new URL fetching, JSON/XML serialization, and tag extensibility. Updates code examples to Ruby 3.4 conventions (modern requires, shorthand hash syntax, URI/Net::HTTP instead of open-uri). Also updates gemspec: HTTPS homepage, removes deprecated rubyforge_project, adds required_ruby_version >= 3.1.
Highlight major features added in version 2.0: URL fetching with conditional GET, JSON/XML serialization, array tags, attribute parsing, UTF-8 normalization, and Ruby 3.1-4.0 compatibility.
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Summary
Add the ability to fetch and parse feeds directly from URLs, with support for conditional GET (ETag/Last-Modified) for efficient polling.
Usage
Options
timeout:- connection/read timeout in secondsheaders:- custom headers hash (e.g.,{ "Authorization" => "Bearer ..." })follow_redirects:- follow 301/302 redirects (default: true, max 5)etag:- ETag for conditional GETlast_modified:- Last-Modified for conditional GETFeatures
Test plan
NETWORK_TESTS=1Closes #46