Parsing xml response data with Nodejs

1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2. <ns2:urlset xmlns:ns2="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" hc="a3">
3. <url>
4. <loc>http://www.flipclub.com/</loc>
5. <lastmod>2015-06-09</lastmod>
6. <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
7. <priority>1.0</priority>
8. </url>
9. <url>
10. <loc>http://www.flipclub.com/flashcard/46/3rd-Grade:-Ancient-Rome-Flashcards</loc>
11. <lastmod>2015-06-09</lastmod>
12. <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
13. <priority>1.0</priority>
14. </url>
15. <url>
16. <loc>http://www.flipclub.com/flashcard/47/7th-Grade:-Social-Studies-Flashcards</loc>
17. <lastmod>2015-06-09</lastmod>
18. <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
19. <priority>1.0</priority>
20. </url>
21. <url>
22. <loc>http://www.flipclub.com/flashcard/1068/ACT-English-Game-Set-2-Flashcards</loc>
23. <lastmod>2015-06-09</lastmod>
24. <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
25. <priority>1.0</priority>
26. </url>
27. <url>
28. <loc>http://www.flipclub.com/flashcard/1070/ACT-Exam-Math-Game-Set-1-Flashcards</loc>
29. <lastmod>2015-06-09</lastmod>
30. <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
31. <priority>1.0</priority>
32. </url>
33. <url>
34. <loc>http://www.flipclub.com/flashcard/1069/ACT-Exam-Science-Game-Set-1-Flashcards</loc>
35. <lastmod>2015-06-09</lastmod>
36. <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
37. <priority>1.0</priority>
38. </url>
39. </ns2:urlset>

Sample Parsed Output:-

http://flipclub.com/
http://flipclub.com/flashcard/46/3rd-Grade:-Ancient-Rome-Flashcards
http://flipclub.com/flashcard/47/7th-Grade:-Social-Studies-Flashcards
http://flipclub.com/flashcard/1068/ACT-English-Game-Set-2-Flashcards
http://flipclub.com/flashcard/1070/ACT-Exam-Math-Game-Set-1-Flashcards
http://flipclub.com/flashcard/1069/ACT-Exam-Science-Game-Set-1-Flashcards

Codes:-

1. var url = "http://flipclub.com/sitemap.xml";//get xml from sample sitemap.xml
3. var http = require("http");
4. var parseString = require('xml2js').parseString;//make sure you have installed xml2js with "npm install xml2js"
6. var req = http.get(url, function(res) {
7. // save the data
8. var xml = '';
9. res.on('data', function(chunk) {
10. xml += chunk;
11. });
13. res.on('end', function() {
14. parseString(xml, function(err, result) {
15. var items = result['ns2:urlset']['url'];
16. items.forEach(function(entry) {
17. console.log(entry['loc'][0]);
18. });
19. });
20. });
22. });
24. req.on('error', function(err) {
25. // debug
26. console.log(err);
27. });