How to Fetch RSS feeds into MongoDB with Groovy

Suppose we will fetch some Amazon AWS news into a MongoDB database. These few lines made it possible with the use of Groovy and the Gmongo module:

// To download GMongo on the fly and put it at classpath
@Grab(group='com.gmongo', module='gmongo', version='1.0')
import com.gmongo.GMongo

// Instantiate a com.gmongo.GMongo object instead of com.mongodb.Mongo
// The same constructors and methods are available here
def mongo = new GMongo("127.0.0.1", 27017)

// Get a db reference
def db = mongo.getDB("amazonnews")

// Give the url of the RSS feed
def url = "http://aws.amazon.com/rss/whats-new.rss"

// Parse the url with famous XML Slurper
def rss = new XmlSlurper().parse(url) 

// Write the title and link into the news collection
rss.channel.item.each {
    db.news.insert([title: "${it.title}", link: "${it.link}"])
}

Connect to the MongoDB database if there some documents:

> use amazonnews
switched to db amazonnews
> db.news.find({})
{ "_id" : ObjectId("519a2e980364e3901f41827d"), "title" : "Amazon Elastic Transcoder Announces Seven New Enhancements, Including HLS Support", "link" : "http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/05/16/amazon-elastic-transcoder-announces-seven-new-features/" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("519a2e980364e3901f41827e"), "title" : "Amazon DynamoDB Announces Parallel Scan and Lower-Cost Reads", "link" : "http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/05/15/dynamodb-announces-parallel-scan-and-lower-cost-reads/" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("519a2e990364e3901f41827f"), "title" : "AWS Management Console in AWS GovCloud (US) adds support for Amazon SWF", "link" : "http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/05/14/aws-management-console-in-aws-govcloud-us-adds-support-for-amazon-swf/" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("519a2e990364e3901f418280"), "title" : "AWS OpsWorks launches Amazon CloudWatch metrics view", "link" : "http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/05/14/aws-opsworks-cloudwatch-view/" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("519a2e990364e3901f418281"), "title" : "AWS OpsWorks supports Elastic Load Balancing", "link" : "http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/05/14/aws-opsworks-supports-elb/" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("519a2e990364e3901f418282"), "title" : "AWS Direct Connect location in Seattle and access to AWS GovCloud (US) now available", "link" : "http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/05/08/aws-direct-connect-location-seattle-and-access-govcloud/" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("519a2e990364e3901f418283"), "title" : "Announcing AWS Management Pack for Microsoft System Center ", "link" : "http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/05/08/aws-management-pack-for-microsoft-system-center-2012/" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("519a2e990364e3901f418284"), "title" : "Raising the bar: Amazon announces 4,000 IOPS per EBS Volume and Provisioned IOPS products on AWS Marketplace", "link" : "http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/05/07/announcing-4000-iops-per-piops-volume-and-marketplace-support/" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("519a2e990364e3901f418285"), "title" : "Announcing General Availability of the AWS SDK for Node.js", "link" : "http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/05/06/announcing-general-availability-of-the-aws-sdk-for-node-js/" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("519a2e990364e3901f418286"), "title" : "Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) now supports S3 Server Side Encryption", "link" : "http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/05/01/amazon-elastic-mapreduce-now-supports-S3-server-side-encryption/" }

Works!

More info:
Groovy http://groovy.codehaus.org/
Gmongo https://github.com/poiati/gmongo