Building a Generic RSS Parser Service with Cloudflare Workers / / No Comments About once every three months I’ll write a quick JavaScript demo and attempt to fetch someone’s RSS feed… and then remember that the vast majority of RSS feeds don’t specify a CORS header to allow remote scripts to load them. I know this – and yet I still tend to forget. I thought it would be kind of fun to build a serverless API via Cloudflare Workers to handle loading, parsing, and returning a RSS feed with CORS allowed. I figured this would be pretty easy, but I ran into a snag right away. Workers and NPM Modules # Cloudflare Workers is Node.js compatible… with some issues. Cloudflare has a documentation page on it addressing what you may run into, and for... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: building, Cloudflare, Generic, Parser, service, workers