Re: importing entries

On Apr 7, 2005 11:41 AM, will guaraldi <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I'm thinking we should turn the import-entries-from-rss code into a script
> with some documentation on how to run it from a command line and stick it
> in the contrib area.

Sure. I'll do the optparse code later, once I've got a comment-feed
parsing function. Here's version 2, using feedparser. Entry parsing
and time parsing are way nicer in feedparser, thanks for the
recommendation, wari:

=========start rss2blosxom.py===========
import feedparser, re, os, time

infile = file('index.xml')
outdir = '.'

items = feedparser.parse(infile)['items']
mkfilename = re.compile('\W').sub

class FileExistsError(Exception):
    def __init__(self, filename):
        self.filename = filename
    def __str__(self):
        return "File %s already exists" % filename

for item in items:
    title = item.title
    if 'category' in item:
        dir = item.category
    if not os.path.isdir(dir):
        os.makedirs(dir)
    filename = os.path.join(dir, mkfilename('_', title)) + '.txt'
    filename = filename[:200]
    if not os.path.isfile(filename):
        outfile = file(filename, 'w')
    else:
        raise FileExistsError(filename)
    print >> outfile, title
    print >> outfile, item.content[0].value
    outfile.close()
    t = time.mktime(item.modified_parsed)
    os.utime(filename, (t, t))
=============end rss2blosxom.py=======

Anybody have a better suggestion for file naming? I can't think of one.

Peace
Bill Mill
bill.mill at gmail.com


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