[Tutor] Building RSS reader with Python

[lister at lihim.org]

Might look at rss2email, it works very well for those of us that like
to read email instead of yet another website to read rss feeds.

It won't solve your "search for the address of rss feeds on the site"
but it will give you an idea about rss parsing.

rss2email - http://rss2email.infogami.com/


On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 03:26:21PM -0500, btkuhn at email.unc.edu wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm new to programming and am building a very basic rss reader for my 
> first major project with python and GUI. As it is, I have it set up so 
> that if I input an exact rss feed address (ex 
> http://news.google.com/?output=rss) I can retrieve stories. Id like to 
> make it so that I can enter a site (like http://news.google.com) and 
> have it search for the address of rss feeds on the site, so that I 
> don't have to know exact page addresses for the rss, since most sites 
> don't have such a straightforward location for the RSS page. Is there a 
> way to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Luke