A few weeks back I was browsing round Perlmonks as is my wont, when I came across planetscape's post How can I visualize my complex data structure?. In that post, planetscape mentions the GraphViz::Data::Grapher module for doing a sort of visual equivalent of Data::Dumper. I thought that was extremely cool and (of course) had to think up an excuse to try it out. So I made a RSS visualizer script. There are pictures in my flickr or a longer writeup and slideshow on my site. Here's the code, though. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.10.0;
use LWP::Simple;
use XML::Feed;
use XML::Simple;
use GraphViz::Data::Grapher;
use Readonly;

Readonly my $usage => "$0 <URI of page with feeds>";

die $usage unless($#ARGV==0);

my $page_url = $ARGV[0];
$page_url = "http://$page_url" unless ($page_url =~ /^https?:\/\//);  

my @feeds = XML::Feed->find_feeds($page_url);
my $i = 0;
for(@feeds) {
    my $xml = get($_);
    die "Couldn't fetch feed" unless defined $xml;
    my $feed = XMLin($xml);
    my $graph = GraphViz::Data::Grapher->new($feed);
    $graph->{LAYOUT}='fdp';
    $graph->{RATIO}=1.618;  # naturally
    print $graph->as_png("feed_structure-$i.png");
    $i++;
}

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Charlie Harvey.

In reply to Visualize RSS feeds with GraphViz::Data::Grapher by ciderpunx

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