RSS Feed Reader using Python and Beautiful Soup 4

Create an Simple RSS Feed Reader using Python and Beautiful Soup 4.

Rss Feed scraping with BeautifulSoup

import the Beautiful Soup 4 and urllib.request

from urllib.request import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

Parse RSS feed items


def news(xml_news_url):

    parse_xml_url = urlopen(xml_news_url)
    xml_page = parse_xml_url.read()
    parse_xml_url.close()

    soup_page = BeautifulSoup(xml_page, "xml")
    news_list = soup_page.findAll("item")

    for getfeed in news_list:

        print("\n")
        print('\033[1;33m %s \033[1;m' %getfeed.title.text)
        print('\033[1;32m %s \033[1;m' %getfeed.link.text)
        print('\033[1;35m %s \033[1;m' %getfeed.pubDate.text)
        print("\n")

Add RSS Feed URL

#you can add 'xml' URL here from any websites/blog
NEWS_URL = "https://news.ycombinator.com/rss"

#now call news function
news(NEWS_URL)

Full Code


#!/usr/bin/env python

from urllib.request import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

def news(xml_news_url):

    parse_xml_url = urlopen(xml_news_url)
    xml_page = parse_xml_url.read()
    parse_xml_url.close()

    soup_page = BeautifulSoup(xml_page, "xml")
    news_list = soup_page.findAll("item")

    for getfeed in news_list:

        print("\n")
        print('\033[1;33m %s \033[1;m' %getfeed.title.text)
        print('\033[1;32m %s \033[1;m' %getfeed.link.text)
        print('\033[1;35m %s \033[1;m' %getfeed.pubDate.text)
        print("\n")

NEWS_URL = "https://news.ycombinator.com/rss"

news(NEWS_URL)

Sample Output

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