New Relic Synthetics script to check for new food allergy alerts

food-agency-new-relic-synthetics.js

var parseString = require('xml2js').parseString;
var $http = require('request');
 
// Get the New Relic status RSS feed
$http.get('https://www.food.gov.uk/rss-feed/alerts-allergy', function(err, response, body) {
  parseString(body, function(err, result){
    // Parse the RSS, and get the latest incident
    var latestIncident = result.rss.channel[0].item[0];
    
    // Push the incident details to Insights
    $util.insights.set('newsTitle', latestIncident.title[0]);
    $util.insights.set('Description', latestIncident.description[0]);
    $util.insights.set('Date', latestIncident.pubDate[0]);

    console.log(latestIncident.title[0]);
    console.log(latestIncident.description[0]);
    console.log(latestIncident.pubDate[0]);
  });
});