feedendum 0.2.0

Utilities to read and write RSS and Atom feeds.

feedendum

A python library to parse and generate RSS or atom feeds.

Features

This module can:

• parse RSS text and file
• parse Atom text and file
• read an url if requests is installed
• access standard fields via feed class and feed.item list
• access non-standard fields via _data dict
• create arbitrary feed
• modify an existing feed
• generate a RSS text
• generate an Atom text
• preserve all data parsed, even in custom fields, when generating a RSS/Atom text

Usage

Parsing a file

For RSS:

feed = feedendum.from_rss_file(file_path)
feed = feedendum.from_rss_text(txt)

For Atom:

feed = feedendum.from_atom_file(file_path)
feed = feedendum.from_atom_text(txt)

Accessing to parsed data

Standard fields:

print("Title", feed.title)
print("First entry title", feed.items[0].title)

For other fields, not defined in Feed class:

print("Extra attributes in the feed", feed._data)
print("Extra attributes in the first entry", feed.items[0]._data)

Writing a file

For RSS:

feedendum.to_rss_string(feed)

For Atom:

feedendum.to_atom_string(feed)