rssfeed
A simple rss/atom/opml parser
Installation
pip install rssfeed
Get Started
rss parse
import requests
import rssfeed
text = requests.get("https://lobste.rs/rss").text
rssfeed.parse(text)
{
"name": "Lobsters",
"lastupdate": 1739824193,
"items": [
{
"title": "Why I'm Writing a Scheme Implementation in 2025 (The Answer is Async Rust)",
"author": "maplant.com by mplant",
"timestamp": 1739824193,
"url": "https://maplant.com/2025-02-17-Why-I'm-Writing-a-Scheme-Implementation-in-2025-(The-Answer-is-Async-Rust).html",
"content": "<p><a href=\"https://lobste.rs/s/zm1g8r/why_i_m_writing_scheme_implementation\">Comments</a></p>"
},
{
"title": "14 years of systemd",
"author": "lwn.net via calvin",
"timestamp": 1739814564,
"url": "https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1008721/7c31808d76480012/",
"content": "<p><a href=\"https://lobste.rs/s/c6rk0l/14_years_systemd\">Comments</a></p>"
},
{
"title": "Making the Web More Readable With Stylus",
"author": "wezm.net by wezm",
"timestamp": 1739757928,
"url": "https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2025/stylus/",
"content": "<p><a href=\"https://lobste.rs/s/sag0p3/making_web_more_readable_with_stylus\">Comments</a></p>"
}
]
}
rssfeed does not escape HTML tags, which means you had to sanitization content otherwise it may lead to Cross-site scripting attacks, a recommended choice is nh3.
opml parse
import rssfeed
opml = """
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<opml version="1.0">
<head>
<title>demo feeds</title>
</head>
<body>
<outline text="news">
<outline text="奇客Solidot" xmlUrl="https://www.solidot.org/index.rss" type="rss" />
<outline text="news-submenu">
<outline text="Lobsters" xmlUrl="https://lobste.rs/rss" type="rss" />
</outline>
</outline>
<outline text="阮一峰的网络日志" xmlUrl="https://feeds.feedburner.com/ruanyifeng" type="rss" />
</body>
</opml>
"""
rssfeed.opmlParse(opml)
{
"default": [
{
"name": "阮一峰的网络日志",
"url": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/ruanyifeng"
}
],
"news": [
{
"name": "奇客Solidot",
"url": "https://www.solidot.org/index.rss"
},
{
"name": "Lobsters",
"url": "https://lobste.rs/rss"
}
]
}
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