Python rss parser:

[regexorcist]

OMG!!It appears I'm very rusty when it comes to python as this took me...(I hate to admit it) a few hours to finish. The code below is a small RSS feed parser only for the <title>, <link> and <pubDate> tags.Besides using only 3 tags, I designed it to read the RSS structure of this forum only,it may or may not work anywhere else. The real purpose was to show some python code doing something.(It's not lean nor pretty and I know there are much easier ways to do the same thing)NOTE:there is no validation checking of the input RSS feed path

#!/usr/bin/pythonimport sysimport stringfrom urllib2 import urlopenimport xml.dom.minidom var_feed_url = sys.argv[1]var_xml = urlopen(var_feed_url)var_all = xml.dom.minidom.parse(var_xml)def extract_content(var_all, var_tag, var_loop_count):   return var_all.firstChild.getElementsByTagName(var_tag)[var_loop_count].firstChild.datavar_loop_count = 0var_item = " "while len(var_item) > 0:   var_title = extract_content(var_all, "title", var_loop_count)   var_link = extract_content(var_all, "link", var_loop_count)   var_date = extract_content(var_all, "pubDate", var_loop_count)   print "Title:		  ", var_title      print "URL Link:	   ", var_link   print "Published Date: ", var_date   print " "   var_loop_count += 1   try:	  var_item = var_all.firstChild.getElementsByTagName("item")[var_loop_count].firstChild.data   except:	  	  var_item = ""

Here is this ugly script in action...Here is the feed path used (notice the path at the bottom of image)Because the path is so long and has to be typed on the command line after the python script name, I decided to assign the path to a bash variable r_path.This makes it easier to run multiple times and makes for an image not so widefor this post.Here is what the command line looks like when running the script:(I named the script rss.py and a RSS path argument must be entered after, no validation...sorry)Here you can see that the script has run, but your only seeing the last entries: The above problem is easily remedied by piping the command into more./rss.py $r_path | moreHope this helps someone

[securitybreach]

Nice python script