SimplePie is a very fast and easy-to-use class, written in PHP, that puts the simple back into Really Simple Syndication (RSS). Flexible enough to suit beginners and veterans alike, SimplePie is focused on speed, ease of use, compatibility and standards compliance.
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This repository FreshRSS/simplepie is a fork of the main repository simplepie/simplepie
intended to be used for FreshRSS, which is a free, self-hostable news aggregator.
The branch freshrss is the one used in the FreshRSS codebase.
This allows in particular to use fixes and patches, which have not (yet) been submitted upstream or not (yet) merged upstream.