RSS reader

RSS reader is a command-line utility which receives RSS URL and prints results in human-readable format.

The source for this project is available here.

Installation

$ pip install rss-reader-Anna-Gonchar

Usage

$ rss-reader (-h | --help)

Show help message and exit

$ rss-reader

Print rss feeds in human-readable format

$ rss-reader --version

Print version info

$ rss-reader --json

Print result as JSON in stdout

$ rss-reader.py --verbose

Outputs verbose status messages

$ rss-reader.py --limit LIMIT

Limit news topics, if this parameter provided

$ rss-reader.py --date DATE

Gets a date in %Y%m%d format. Print news from the specified date
and source (<RSS-SOURCE-LINK>), if it specified

$ rss-reader.py --to-pdf PATH_TO_PDF

Gets file path. Convert news to pdf and save them to pdf file on the specified path

$ rss-reader.py --to-html PATH_TO_HTML

Gets file path. Convert news to html and save them to html file on the specified path

Storage

All the pieces of news received from the source are saved to the binary file. Shelve module is used for this. It saves object with the specific key to the file. The key is the rss news publication date, the value is the news.