rssfixer 0.0.6

Generate RSS feed for Wordpress blog without it.

rssfixer

A small tool to generate an RSS feed from some WordPress blogs that for some reason don't generate their own feeds. This tool uses BeautifulSoup to parse the HTML and feedgen to generate the feed.

Installation

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
python3 -m pip install rssfixer

Example

Format for storing the links varies but I'll try and add more formats as I find them.

List

An example to generate a feed for nccgroup that have the links in a list:

$ rssfixer --title nccgroup https://research.nccgroup.com/
RSS feed created: rss_feed.xml

You can specify a filename and silence output:

rssfixer --title nccgroup --output nccgroup.xml --quiet https://research.nccgroup.com/

The resulting file is available here as an example.

Most times you would run the script from crontab to have an updated feed. Here is an example with a venv in /home/user/src/rssfixer.

32 * * * *      /home/user/src/rssfixer/bin/rssfixer --title nccgroup --output /var/www/html/feeds/nccgroup.xml --quiet https://research.nccgroup.com

JSON

An example for truesec.com:

rssfixer --json --quiet --output truesec.xml https://www.truesec.com/hub/blog

Usage

usage: rssfixer [-h] [--version] [--atom] [--base-url BASE_URL] [--html] [--html-entries HTML_ENTRIES] [--html-url HTML_URL] [--html-title HTML_TITLE]
                [--html-title-class HTML_TITLE_CLASS] [--html-description HTML_DESCRIPTION] [--html-description-class HTML_DESCRIPTION_CLASS] [--json] [--json-entries JSON_ENTRIES]
                [--json-url JSON_URL] [--json-title JSON_TITLE] [--json-description JSON_DESCRIPTION] [--output OUTPUT] [--title TITLE] [-q] [--list]
                url

Generate RSS feed for blog that don't publish a feed. Default is to find links in a simple <ul>-list. Options are available to find links in other HTML elements or JSON strings.

positional arguments:
  url                   URL for the blog

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  --atom                Generate Atom feed
  --base-url BASE_URL   Base URL for the blog
  --html                Find entries in HTML
  --html-entries HTML_ENTRIES
                        HTML selector for entries
  --html-url HTML_URL   HTML selector for URL
  --html-title HTML_TITLE
                        HTML selector for title
  --html-title-class HTML_TITLE_CLASS
                        Flag to specify title class (regex)
  --html-description HTML_DESCRIPTION
                        HTML selector for description
  --html-description-class HTML_DESCRIPTION_CLASS
                        Flag to specify description class (regex)
  --json                Find entries in JSON
  --json-entries JSON_ENTRIES
                        JSON key for entries (default: 'entries')
  --json-url JSON_URL   JSON key for URL (default: 'url')
  --json-title JSON_TITLE
                        JSON key for title
  --json-description JSON_DESCRIPTION
                        JSON key for description
  --output OUTPUT       Name of the output file
  --title TITLE         Title of the RSS feed (default: "My RSS Feed")
  -q, --quiet           Suppress output
  --list                Find entries in HTML <ul>-list (default)