I’ve uploaded two new feed tool gems, that is, feedparser and feedfilter. What’s feedparser? The feedparser gem is (yet) another gem that tries to “normalize” web feeds in RSS 2.0 and Atom flavors offering two “normalized” Ruby classes, that is, Feed and Item (plus the mapping in builders, that is, RssFeedBuilder and AtomFeedBuilder). What’s feedfilter? The feedfilter gem collects filters for feeds e.g. using strip_ads lets you strip feedflare ads or feedburner bugs and so on using (builtin) text patterns. Both gems get used by the planet pluto machinery that runs, for example, Planet Ruby or Planet Open Data. Cheers.