`feedfinder`

Ultra-liberal feed finder

The feedfinder module is accessible via the fmtorrent.master.aggregator module.

Attributes (2)
Functions (12)
Classes (5)
Modules
Index
Source

http://diveintomark.org/projects/feed_finder/

Usage: getFeeds(uri) - returns list of feeds associated with this address

Example: >>> import feedfinder >>> feedfinder.getFeeds('http://diveintomark.org/') ['http://diveintomark.org/xml/atom.xml'] >>> feedfinder.getFeeds('macnn.com') ['http://www.macnn.com/macnn.rdf']

Can also use from the command line. Feeds are returned one per line: $ python feedfinder.py diveintomark.org http://diveintomark.org/xml/atom.xml

How it works: 0. At every step, feeds are minimally verified to make sure they are really feeds. 1. If the URI points to a feed, it is simply returned; otherwise

System Message: ERROR/3 (fmtorrent.master.aggregator.feedfinder, line 20)

Unexpected indentation.

the page is downloaded and the real fun begins.

System Message: WARNING/2 (fmtorrent.master.aggregator.feedfinder, line 21)

Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.

Feeds pointed to by LINK tags in the header of the page (autodiscovery)
<A> links to feeds on the same server ending in ".rss", ".rdf", ".xml", or ".atom"
<A> links to feeds on the same server containing "rss", "rdf", "xml", or "atom"
<A> links to feeds on external servers ending in ".rss", ".rdf", ".xml", or ".atom"
<A> links to feeds on external servers containing "rss", "rdf", "xml", or "atom"
As a last ditch effort, we search Syndic8 for feeds matching the URI

Attributes

a `credits`

'Abe Fettig for a patch to sort Syndic8 feeds by popularity\nAlso Jason Diamond, Brian Lalor for bug reporting and patches'

a `history`

"\n1.1 - MAP - 2003/02/20 - added support for Robot Exclusion Standard.  Will\nfetch /robots.txt once per domain and verify that URLs are allowed to be\ndownloaded.  Identifies itself as\n  rssfinder/<version> Python-urllib/<version> +http://diveintomark.org/projects/rss_finder/\n1.2 - MAP - 2004-01-09 - added Atom support, changed name, relicensed,\n  don't query Syndic8 by default (pass querySyndic8=1 to getFeeds to do it anyway)\n"