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I am looking for a good library in python that will help me parse RSS feeds. Has anyone used feedparser? Any feedback? FogleBird Using feedparser is a much better option than rolling your own with minidom or BeautifulSoup. It normalizes the differences between all versions of RSS and Atom so you don't have to have different code for each type. It's good about detecting different date formats and other variations in feeds. It automatically follows HTTP redirects. It sanitizes HTML content. It has support for ETag and Last-Modified headers so you can see if the feed has changed just by

I'm look at a way of turning an iTunes podcast id into the RSS feed that the podcast producer serves. I'm aware of the RSS generator , which can be used to generate a feed of links to podcasts, but these links are to HTML pages. If you have iTunes open, you can manually export the list of podcasts by exporting to OPML, so we can surmise that iTunes eventually knows how to decode them (i.e. they're not exclusively going through an iTMS host). I have looked at the Affiliate API document which gives you some nice JSON back. This gives you a collectionViewUrl which is the same as the ones given in

...instead of using the Atom syndication format? Atom is a well-defined , general-purpose XML syndication format. RSS is fractured into four different versions. All the major feed readers have supported Atom for as long as I can remember, so why isn't its use more prevalent? Worst of all are sites that provide feeds in both formats - what's the point?! UPDATE (18 August): Interestingly, this site itself is using Atom for its feeds rather than RSS. The fundamental thing that the Atom creators didn't understand (and that the Atom supporters still don't understand), is that Atom isn't somehow

Is one MIME type preferable to ensure compatibility with RSS readers and other scrapers? The options seem to be: text/xml text/rss+xml Interestingly Stackoverflow is using text/html. Neither. It's application/rss+xml http://www.rssboard.org/rss-mime-type-application.txt Robert MacLean Other commenters have pointed out that the single correct mime type is application/rss+xml, . However, if you are setting an accept header for a client then Accept: application/rss+xml, application/rdf+xml;q=0.8, application/atom+xml;q=0.6, application/xml;q=0.4, text/xml;q=0.4 might be a good choice, as it

all. I am interested in pulling the Last Build Date information from an RSS feed. I will use the information to let the user know when there is a new feed out. Here is the RSS feed... <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"> <channel> <title>User's Facebook Notifications</title> <link>https://www.facebook.com/notifications?id=USERIDHERE</link> <description>User's Facebook Notifications</description> <language>en-us</language> <category domain="Facebook">NotificationSyndicationFeed<