Reddit RSS Chrome extension

I made a Chrome extension that displayed posts from a subreddit using its RSS feed.

The extension parsed the feed's XML to extract titles, links, and timestamps, then displayed them in a popup.

Unfortunately I have not kept the source code nor any screenshot for this Chrome extension.

A Chrome extension is basically a web page with some javascript code and a manifest.json file. You can fetch data from an external server using AJAX requests.

// Function to fetch Reddit RSS feed data
async function fetchRedditData(subreddit) {
  const rssUrl = `https://www.reddit.com/r/${subreddit}/.rss`;
  
  try {
    const response = await fetch(rssUrl);
    const xmlData = await response.text();
    
    // Parse XML data (you might want to use a library for more robust parsing)
    const parser = new DOMParser();
    const xmlDoc = parser.parseFromString(xmlData, "text/xml");
    
    // Extract relevant information from the XML document
    const items = xmlDoc.querySelectorAll('item');
    const redditData = Array.from(items).map(item => ({
      title: item.querySelector('title').textContent,
      link: item.querySelector('link').textContent,
      pubDate: item.querySelector('pubDate').textContent
    }));
    
    return redditData;
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Error fetching Reddit data:', error);
    throw error;
  }
}

This was a small extension, not a general-purpose Reddit client. The sample above is illustrative. I no longer have the original source code or screenshots.