By Far The Most Elegant!
“A lot of the work I’m doing at my day job these days involves creating and manipulating data coming from RSS feeds — and, in general, I’ve always been a great believer in the convenience and portability of feed-based data. That’s why I was really excited to see the SimplePie PHP class, which does an incredible job of parsing and manipulating feed data. I’ve played with other PHP classes that do this in the past, and SimplePie is by far the most elegant.”
— Jeff, ldopa.netThe Best Free PHP Solution!
“Having spent many hours researching I have found what appears to be the best free PHP solution for displaying RSS feeds on your site. The solution uses PHP which if you are not familiar with it is a popular server side processing language and is called SimplePie.”
— NewsNiche.comInfinite!
“The possibilities are infinite with SimplePie.” (translated)
— Gabriel Rodrigue, GabrielRodrigue.comSimple!
“I used SimplePie to power my experiment in a Lifestream. I did it more out of curiosity and boredom than anything. I’m definitely not savvy in the ways of code, but I found SimplePie to be, well, Simple. Easy to set up, and it runs pretty seamlessly for me. Since it’s been running I’ve had no problems. I believe they are going to release a new version soon with a whole bucket of improvements and such.”
— Griffin, posted to the 9rules Programming NotesRocks Hard!
“SimplePie rocks hard (harder than Magpie.) It came out as we were building an rss reader. Love it.”
— amentele, posted to the 9rules Programming NotesQuick and Easy
“I’ve used both Magpie and Simplepie on a variety of projects. If what you want is quick and easy integration of blog-style RSS, SimplePie is really easy to work with.”
— jwynia, posted to the 9rules Programming NotesDefinitely SimplePie
“I know if I ever need something like that again I’ll definitely use SimplePie. It was a breeze to set up, and it’s pretty lightweight.”
— JulianBH, posted to the 9rules Programming NotesI Love It!
“I’ve used it a couple of times across a few sites. I love it! It was very easy to get installed and running and it handled feeds how I wanted. And when I had to use craptastic feeds, I ran them through Yahoo Pipes to whip them into shape. :)”
— peroty, posted to the 9rules Programming NotesWholeheartedly
“I’ve dabbled in both Magpie & SimplePie. My vote would wholeheartedly go for SimplePie.”
— pickle, posted to the DevNetwork forumsThe New Black
“SimplePie is the new black this season… much better support for RSS/Atom.”
— aaronhall, posted to the DevNetwork forumsFour Billion Times
“SimplePie is approximately four billion times better than PEAR fricking XML Feed Parser.”
— Ryan, FatVegan.comNew, Neat, and Cool
“In a moment reminiscent of the famous scene in The Graduate, I whispered… the word ‘SimplePie’. Long story short, don’t tell Jim about something new, neat, and cool, and expect him not to blog about it right away. […] When something works this well right out of the gate, it lends itself to further exploration. SimplePie appears to be a deep cave.”
— Andy Rush, And He BlogsHoly Cow!
“Did I mention SimplePie yet? Holy cow, if you’ve ever used Magpie RSS, and are looking for a more robust solution, check out SimplePie. It’s a great PHP library that parses RSS or Atom.”
— Steve Cooley, SomeJunkWeLike.comTops for Simplicity
“For anyone interested out there, use SimplePie for RSS feed parsing. I tried almost a dozen scripts, and this one is tops for simplicity.”
— Paige Howarth, graphicsworkshop.netDead Simple
“I used a free PHP script called SimplePie to pull in the RSS data. It was dead simple to use, and that’s the way I like it.”
— Jeff James, unsquare.comIt Just Works!™
“I haven’t written much lately because you folks do such a great job, the software just works — and I don’t have to think about it. Wish there was more software like that…”
— Mike MacGirvin, posted to the SimplePie forumsPretty Darn Easy
“I’m using SimplePie (specifically their WordPress plugin) to do this. The SimplePie folks have an aptly named product — it’s pretty darn easy to use. Definitely recommended for quick and dirty integrations like this.”
— Alex King, alexking.orgBlonde-friendly
“SimplePie: Blonde-friendly RSS parsing. Put simply, SimplePie is an RSS parser which is written to be dead simple and usable.”
— Adrian Cachinero, gozkino.comLooking Good!
“I’m giving a package called SimplePie a test run right now, and so far it looks good. Nice caching support and a very thorough API.”
— Charles Johnson, Little Green FootballsYay SimplePie!
“Yay SimplePie! Super-simple RSS class and mash-up tools for web services and integration. Just used it with the multifeeds package to create a mash of antiweb feeds.”
— Scot Hacker, birdhouse.orgFeed parsing for the rest of us!
“SimplePie build themselves up as “feed parsing for the rest of us” and they’re not lying.”
— Andrew Faulkner, Fadtastic!Most Refreshing!
“I am not one to recommend scripts all that much but I have been playing around with something called SimplePie and it’s pretty sweet…. My description is just edit a few variables put it on the server and it works. Most refreshing!”
— Dale M, CompHobby.orgLooking and Dreaming
“I was looking and looking and dreaming of running across a class to do what I need, and here it is. Thank you so much. Could you please install a PayPal donation button?… I would just like to donate money.”
— PeggyOCO, posted to the SimplePie ForumsNerdcrush
“I have a serious nerdcrush on SimplePie. It was incredibly easy to install with excellent directions. And the syntax for adding a feed to a page couldn’t be simpler… and it worked the first time. Whoopee!”
— Tara Calishain, Research BuzzFaster than Wordpress
“SimplePie [is] faster than the WordPress plugin, MagpieRSS”
— Sunxiunan, AK47 Wordpress LoversWins in a Big Way
“I decided to take SimplePie for a spin… and it wins, in a big way… ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.”
— Alex Hillman, dangerouslyawesome.comHandles RSS Nicer
“I have dumped MagpieRSS for SimplePie, which handles RSS feeds a lot nicer…”
— Ronald Heft, Jr., cavemonkey50.comAll-star Cool Tool!
“I am going to give SimplePie my allstar cool tool, stamp of approval.”
— Graeme, icooltools.comLove It!
“A new piece of PHP software called SimplePie now replaces my early attempts to parse their RSS feeds — use it and love it.”
— Stephen VanDyke, Hammer of TruthSimple to Use
“I was just playing around with SimplePie and found it simple to use and extremely well documented. I like the effort that you put in to getting newbies up to speed. It’s dedication like that which encourages adoption. Great work!”
— Jameson Hsu, co-founder of MochimediaThe Best! (Again)
“Thanks to these guys we can provide you with this service - it’s the best caching RSS parser around!”
— theweblist blogIncredibly Simple
“The install and demo for normal sites is incredibly simple and the code is fully featured but held in a single file. It can even spit out the ‘subscribe via’ links for the major sites. All in all it appears to be very impressive.”
— Sarah King, Simple SEO and Web Development blogSo Jazzed
“SimplePie is a very nice implementation… I was so jazzed on SimplePie last night, I rebuilt my music page with it.”
— Dominic Sagolla, Odeo, Dom.netAmazingly Cool
“Thanks for an amazingly cool parser :)”
— BaricomAbsurdly Simple
“If you’re looking for an absurdly simple and easy-to-use RSS [and] Atom parser… may I recommend SimplePie.”
— Maura Chace, notmyself.comReally Easy, Really Smart
“Simplepie is really easy, really smart, and helps you out by offering functionality for common tasks…. Still in ‘beta,’ but shaping up to be really great.”
— ozmm, posted to digg.comStraightforward to Use
“It’s also really straightforward to use, which is great.”
— Kelly McKiernan, ilenn.comThe Best Choice
“Passes many of the Atom conformance tests, and can read all but the most obscure Atom edge cases. Parses RSS quite well. It’s almost certainly the best PHP-based parser right now.”
— Bob Aman, sporkmonger.comPlease support happy developers! Wishlists for Geoffrey and Ryan
SimplePie is © 2004–2024 Ryan Parman, Geoffrey Sneddon and contributors. Licensed under the BSD License. Hosted by Dreamhost, powered by WordPress and PHP 5.6.40, and managed with Basecamp. Syndication handled by SimplePie. Variation on the Feed Icon by Wolfgang Bartelme.