Python Universal Feed Parser
| June 22, 2004 @ 5:00 pm | Filed under Programming |
The following is a post on Phil Windley’s weblog about Mark Pilgrim’s Universal Feed Parser:
Mark Pilgrim has released Version 3 of the Universal Feed Parser. The parser is written in Python and can handle RSS 0.90, Netscape RSS 0.91, Userland RSS 0.91, RSS 0.92, RSS 0.93, RSS 0.94, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom, and CDF feeds. There are 2000 unit tests and 100 pages of documentation. Very handy. Thanks Mark!
I had tried using Mark Pilgrim’s Universal Feed Parser a few weeks ago but got quite frustrated with it because of the lack of documentation. All I really had as reference for its usage was a small example. When I saw this posting on Phil Windley’s weblog I quickly followed the link to find that the final release was out for version 3.0. This time there was some beautiful documentation. In just a few minutes I was using the parser with no problem. This came in handy since part of my job is working on a project where I needed to parse RSS and Atom feeds.