Re: importing entries

On Apr 7, 2005 1:19 AM, Wari Wahab <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I tested this on both Ted's and my sites' main RSS files, and it
> > worked like a charm. It seems, in looking over some RSS from others,
> > that some feeds use the 'content:encoded' tag, while others use
> > 'description'. I test for a content tag (which is a little wonky in
> > cElementTree, so there's room for improvement in that test), and if
> > it's there, use that. If not, I use the description.
> 
> These parsing issues are usually taken care of by the feedparser by
> Mark Pilgrim. It even does so without using an unforgiving XML parser.
> 
> > Also, how do you want to do file naming? I sanitize the title and use
> > the first 200 characters of it, but that's suboptimal.
> 
> There's also date/time that wasn't imported, easily solvable though.
> What about comment feeds support? These are things that first time
> users will ask for.

I forgot about that - but it's just an os.utime() . I had thought of
it earlier, but forgot it when I went to write the script.

> 
> But I have to say Bill that it's a great try at coming up with what
> Will wanted. Nice job :)
> 
> I'd say use the feedparser library @
> http://diveintomark.org/projects/feed_parser/feedparser.py and you have
> years of bug fixes to support all other RSS anomalies and you got the
> bonus of supporting atom, and is unicode too.
> 
> Just did a quick lookup and looks like there's a nice feedparser
> website. http://feedparser.org/
> 

I'll give it a shot. I don't know why the content:encoded tag comes
out all goofy in cElementTree - I'm going to shoot Frederik an email.
Otherwise, my code would be really *really* simple.

> Using feedparser, your code would be simpler, and you just have to deal
> with domains that you have not faced yet in the world of RSS. Really
> Simple Syndication isn't.
> 

Peace
Bill Mill
bill.mill at gmail.com


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