Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russell L. Harris: >> >> I discovered and installed a Debian package "python-pyrss2gen" which is >> a Python interface for generating RSS 2.0 feeds, but the package appears >> to have no man page. I searched with Google but I did not find information >> about the package, so I don't know how to use it. > > It's a programming library for python and these seldomly have a manpage. > But I agree that documentation is a little bit poor. However, there is > a usage example in /usr/share/doc/python-pyrss2gen/README.gz. > > I only used it once to write a little script that dissects bash.org's > HTML output so that I have an RSS feed of new entries. You can look at > it here: > http://wasteland.homelinux.net/svn/src/python/scripts/bash-rss.py > and the output at: > http://wasteland.homelinux.net/~jrschulz/bash-org.rss > > Finding the right HTML tags which include the interesting parts of your > website might be a little tricky and in my case it only works so well > because bash.org's HTML is quite tidy. If you have direct access to the > site it might be easier gather the information you need from another > place than the site's HTML output. That gives the additional benefit > that your script won't break when the site's layout changes. > > J.
Thanks, Jochen! I feel stupid for failing to look for the README in the "doc" directory. I'll take a look at your example the first thing in the morning. RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
