Version 0.1.2

rollup.config.js

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import commonjs from '@rollup/plugin-commonjs';
 import replace from '@rollup/plugin-replace';
 import postcss from 'rollup-plugin-postcss';
 import alias from 'rollup-plugin-alias';
-import _dotenv from 'dotenv/config';
+// import _dotenv from 'dotenv/config';
 import path from "path";
 
 export default {

src/background.ts

@@ -1,8 +1,69 @@
 import browser from 'webextension-polyfill';
 
+let awaitingResponse = false
+
+const onFeedDownloaded = (req: XMLHttpRequest) => {
+  return async () => {
+    awaitingResponse = false
+    if (req.status >= 400) {
+      console.error(
+        `Could not load URL feed: ${req.responseURL}: ` +
+        `${req.status}: ${req.statusText}`
+      )
+
+      return
+    }
+
+    const [tab] = await browser.tabs.query({
+      active: true,
+      currentWindow: true
+    })
+
+    if (!tab || tab.id === -1)
+      return
+
+    await browser.tabs.sendMessage(
+      tab.id, {
+        type: 'renderFeed',
+        document: req.responseText
+      }
+    )
+  }
+}
+
+const renderFeed = (url: string) => {
+  awaitingResponse = true
+  const req = new XMLHttpRequest()
+  req.onload = onFeedDownloaded(req)
+  req.open('GET', url)
+  req.responseType = 'text'
+  req.send()
+}
+
 browser.webNavigation.onCompleted.addListener(
-  async (event: {tabId: string;}) => {
+  async (event: {tabId: Number}) => {
     const { tabId } = event
     await browser.tabs.sendMessage(tabId, {type: 'renderFeed'})
   }
 )
+
+browser.webRequest.onHeadersReceived.addListener(
+  async (event: {
+    url: string,
+    responseHeaders: Array<{name: string, value: string}>
+  }) => {
+    if (awaitingResponse)
+      return
+
+    const {url, responseHeaders} = event
+    const contentType = responseHeaders.find(
+        h => h.name.toLowerCase() === 'content-type'
+    )?.value || ''
+
+    if (contentType.startsWith('application/rss+xml'))
+      renderFeed(url)
+  },
+  {urls: ['<all_urls>']},
+  ['blocking', 'responseHeaders']
+)
+

src/main.ts

@@ -103,9 +103,9 @@ const parseFeed = (channel: Element) => {
   }
 }
 
-const getFeedRoot = () => {
+const getFeedRoot = (): HTMLElement | null => {
   const xmlDoc = document.documentElement
-  if (xmlDoc.tagName === 'rss')
+  if (xmlDoc.tagName.toLowerCase() === 'rss')
     return xmlDoc
 
   // Chrome-based browsers may wrap the XML into an HTML view
@@ -116,28 +116,31 @@ const getFeedRoot = () => {
   // For some ugly reasons, some RSS feeds are rendered inside of a <pre> in a normal HTML DOM
   const preElements = document.getElementsByTagName('pre')
   if (preElements.length !== 1)
-    return
+    return null
 
-  const text = preElements[0].innerText
+  return preElements[0]
+}
+
+const textToDOM = (text: string) => {
   const parser = new DOMParser()
-  let innerXmlDoc = null
+  let xmlDoc = null
 
   try {
     // @ts-ignore
-    innerXmlDoc = parser.parseFromString(text, 'text/xml')
+    xmlDoc = parser.parseFromString(text, 'text/xml')
   } catch (e) { }
 
-  if (!innerXmlDoc)
+  if (!xmlDoc)
     return
 
   // @ts-ignore
-  const root = innerXmlDoc.documentElement
-  if (root.tagName === 'rss')
+  const root = xmlDoc.documentElement
+  if (root.tagName.toLowerCase() === 'rss')
     return root
 }
 
-const renderFeed = () => {
-  const xmlDoc = getFeedRoot()
+const renderFeed = (text: string) => {
+  const xmlDoc = text?.length ? textToDOM(text) : getFeedRoot()
   if (!xmlDoc)
     // Not an RSS feed
     return
@@ -154,7 +157,7 @@ const extractFeedUrl = () => {
   const links = Array.from(document.getElementsByTagName('link'))
     .filter((link) =>
       link.getAttribute('rel') === 'alternate' &&
-            link.getAttribute('type') === 'application/rss+xml'
+      link.getAttribute('type')?.startsWith('application/rss+xml')
      )
 
   if (!links.length)
@@ -171,10 +174,20 @@ const extractFeedUrl = () => {
   return link.length ? link : null
 }
 
-browser.runtime.onMessage.addListener(async (message: {type: Object}) => {
+browser.runtime.onMessage.addListener(
+  async (
+    message: {
+      type: Object,
+      url: string,
+      document: string,
+    }
+  ) => {
     if (message.type === 'renderFeed')
-    return renderFeed()
+      return renderFeed(message.document)
     if (message.type === 'extractFeedUrl')
       return extractFeedUrl()
-})
+
+    console.warn(`Received unknown message type: ${message.type}`)
+  }
+)
 

src/manifest.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "RSS Viewer",
   "description": "An easy way to render RSS feeds directly in your browser",
-  "version": "0.1.1",
+  "version": "0.1.2",
   "manifest_version": 2,
   "browser_action": {
     "default_title": "Feed Viewer",
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@
     "viewer/index.html"
   ],
   "permissions": [
-    "activeTab", "storage", "<all_urls>", "webNavigation"
+    "activeTab",
+    "storage",
+    "<all_urls>",
+    "webNavigation",
+    "webRequest",
+    "webRequestBlocking"
   ]
 }

src/viewer/App.vue

@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ export default {
 </script>
 
 <style lang="scss" scoped>
+.feed {
+  font-family: -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Open Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
+}
+
 header {
   padding: 0.5em;
   box-shadow: 1px 1px 1px 1px #b7b7b7;
@@ -153,9 +157,15 @@ main {
     }
 
     .content {
+      display: flex;
+      flex-direction: column;
       padding: 1em;
       font-size: 1.25em;
-      font-family: sans-serif;
+
+      .description {
+        max-width: 45em;
+        text-align: justify;
+      }
     }
   }
 }