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RSS Ripper

May 24, 2007

I wrote a simple RSS feed parser. It takes an RSS feed such as the one from Digg.com and parses through it making improvements. It then writes out a new file and lets you upload it to your FTP server for republishing.

With Digg.com's RSS feed you always have to visit Digg.com to get the URL for the actual content you want. Since the pages I want aren't even owned by Digg.com I really don't feel any sort of obligation to visit Digg.com before getting to the actual website I'm interested in. My RSS Ripper visits the Digg.com URLs for me, extracts the content URL and replaces the Digg URL for me.

Check it out: RSS Ripper

Coding in Python is such a pleasure. Lately I find I like to use it just as much as Ruby, and much more than PHP.

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linux, rss, digg, python, ripper

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