For various reasons which may become apparent when you view my example feed, I needed to generate an RSS feed using PowerShell.  I was somewhat surprised to find that it had not been done before-at least not well.  There’s an example on the net having to do with Exchange, and it was helpful, but it was very specific to its task which was not my task.  So, I made a generalized script which can be reused for anything.

Usage:

   1: $feedItems = @(

   2:   @{

   3:     Title = 'feed item 1'

   4:     Link = 'http://halr9000.com/link/1'

   5:     Author = 'Hal Rottenberg'

   6:     Description = '<h1>Introduction</h1><p>This is can be a full blog post.</p>'

   7:     pubDate = get-date

   8:   }

   9:   # each hashtable is an item...

  10: }

  11: $feedItems | New-RssFeed -path 'c:\wwwroot\feed.rss' -title 'site title' -desc 'this is my site' -url 'http://halr9000.com'

Here’s an example: http://halr9000.com/test/feed.rss

Code: