from xml.dom import minidom import urllib def load(rssURL): return minidom.parse(urllib.urlopen(rssURL)) DEFAULT_NAMESPACES = \ (None, # RSS 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 2.0 'http://purl.org/rss/1.0/', # RSS 1.0 'http://my.netscape.com/rdf/simple/0.9/' # RSS 0.90 ) def getElementsByTagName(node, tagName, possibleNamespaces=DEFAULT_NAMESPACES): for namespace in possibleNamespaces: children = node.getElementsByTagNameNS(namespace, tagName) if len(children): return children return [] def first(node, tagName, possibleNamespaces=DEFAULT_NAMESPACES): children = getElementsByTagName(node, tagName, possibleNamespaces) return len(children) and children[0] or None def textOf(node): return node and "".join([child.data for child in node.childNodes]) or "" DUBLIN_CORE = ('http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/',) if __name__ == '__main__': import sys rssDocument = load(sys.argv[1]) for item in getElementsByTagName(rssDocument, 'item'): print 'title:', textOf(first(item, 'title')) print 'link:', textOf(first(item, 'link')) print 'description:', textOf(first(item, 'description')) print 'date:', textOf(first(item, 'date', DUBLIN_CORE)) print 'author:', textOf(first(item, 'creator', DUBLIN_CORE)) print