How to get JSON data for yahoo news feed api output

Question

I was working on yahoo news feed data and i want my output in JSON format. here i am using "rss news feed api" to get the yahoo news data. So by default the output of RSS feed will be in XML format, but i want the output in JSON format.

here is the code which I am working on.

import java.net.URL;
import java.io.*;
import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;
//import java.net.HttpURLConnection;

public class JavaHttpsExample {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

    String httpsURL = "http://news.yahoo.com/rss/us";

    URL myurl = new URL(null, httpsURL, new sun.net.www.protocol.https.Handler());
    HttpsURLConnection con = (HttpsURLConnection) myurl.openConnection();
    InputStream ins = con.getInputStream();
    InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(ins);
    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(isr);

    String inputLine;

    while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
        System.out.println(inputLine);
    }

    in.close();
} }

I have also added format=json in the url to get the output as JSON. But I didn't get succeed by doing that.

http://news.yahoo.com/rss/us?format=json

I have tried many ways which in turn caused failure. Can anyone help me out for getting the JSON output.

Paul Swetz · Answer 1 · 2016-06-08T12:24:37.583

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I think you want output=json instead of format=json Got that from here https://developer.yahoo.com/javascript/json.html#output

!Correction! Actually RSS IS xml so I don't think you can directly. You may be able to do what your trying with an actual yahoo api call instead of using the RSS feed. I did find something to do a conversion but I cant speak to its quality http://ejohn.org/projects/rss2json/

edited Jun 08 '16 at 12:24

answered Jun 08 '16 at 12:18

Paul Swetz

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I also tried that Paul. But didn't worked @PaulSwetz – bunny sunny Jun 08 '16 at 12:19
Also sort of duplicate of: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/670511/convert-rss-to-json – Paul Swetz Jun 08 '16 at 12:26

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 06 '16 at 11:34

I got the JSON output by converting the obtained XML output into JSON. Here is the procedure that I followed

    String inputLine = null;
        try {
            while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)    {                        
            newline+=inputLine; 
                    } 

    } catch(Exception e){}
    finally{System.out.println("*********XML_OUTPUT********"+newline);}

    try {
         String newline = "";JSONObject xmlJSONObj = XML.toJSONObject(newline);
         String Json = xmlJSONObj.toString();
         System.out.println("JSON OUTPUT  : "+Json);
   } catch (JSONException je) {
        System.out.println(je.toString());
    }

in.close();

How to get JSON data for yahoo news feed api output

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