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Extracts documents from RSS and Atom feeds. Note that the resulting documents normally need to be passed through a text extraction stage before further processing. One exception is using the Follow Web Links processing element to extract more documents eg from hyperlinks in the original web pages.

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{
	"display": string,
	"feed": {
	    "feedType": string, // Currently not used - will allow for RSS vs Atom in future releases (currently only RSS is supported)
 
    	"waitTimeOverride_ms": integer, // Optional - if specified, controls the amount of time between successive reads to a site (default: 10000ms):
        	            // ie if a site is timing out it may limit the number of accesses from a given IP - set the number higher
            	        // for large sites you can increase the performance of the harvester by setting this number lower
    	"updateCycle_secs": integer, // Optional - if present harvested URLs may be replaced if they are older than this time and are encountered from the RSS or in the "extraUrls"
    	"regexInclude": string, // Optional - if specified, only URLs matching the regex will be harvested
    	"regexExclude": string, // Optional - if specified, any URLs matching the regex will not be harvested
     
    	"extraUrls": [ // This array allows for manually specified URLs to be harvested once
        {
            "url": string // The URL 
		}
    	],
	    "userAgent": string, // (Optional) If present overrides the system default user agent string
	    "proxyOverride": string, // (Optional) "direct" to bypass proxy (the default), or a proxy specification "(http|socks)://host:port" 
		"httpFields": // (Optional) Additional HTTP fields to be applied to the request headers  
		{ 
			"field": "value" // eg "cookie": "sessionkey=346547657687"
		}
	} 
}

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