Archive for the ‘RSS’ Category

feedextractor - a quick and dirty python script to grab lots of feeds from web pages

Monday, February 4th, 2008 | 2 Comments

While looking for new feeds to add to my RSS reader (NetNewsWire), I thought it might be nice to have a utility that would let me grab a web page, spider all of the outbound links, check to see which pages had feeds, and then create an opml file of new feeds I didn’t have [...]

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OPML to HTML: Parsing a list of feeds

Thursday, September 20th, 2007 | 3 Comments

I’m a feed junkie. If you are searching for a simple method to convert OPML to HMTL, chances are that you are too…
OPML as defined by Dave Winer way back in 2000:

OPML an XML-based format that allows exchange of outline-structured information between applications running on different operating systems and environments.

More specifically, OPML is the [...]

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