On Sep 11, 8:32 pm, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Chuck <galois...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sep 11, 12:56 pm, Chuck <galois...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sep 11, 10:30 am, Falcolas <garri...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > On Sep 11, 8:20 am, Chuck <galois...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > Hi all, > > >> > > I would like to code a simple podcast catcher in Python merely as an > >> > > exercise in internet programming. I am a CS student and new to > >> > > Python, but understand Java fairly well. I understand how to connect > >> > > to a server with urlopen, but then I don't understand how to download > >> > > the mp3, or whatever, podcast? Do I need to somehow parse the XML > >> > > document? I really don't know. Any ideas? > > >> > > Thanks! > > >> > > Chuck > > >> > You will first have to download the RSS XML file, then parse that file > >> > for the URL for the audio file itself. Something like eTree will help > >> > immensely in this part. You'll also have to keep track of what you've > >> > already downloaded. > > >> > I'd recommend taking a look at the RSS XML yourself, so you know what > >> > it is you have to parse out, and where to find it. From there, it > >> > should be fairly easy to come up with the proper query to pull it > >> > automatically out of the XML. > > >> > As a kindness to the provider, I would recommend a fairly lengthy > >> > sleep between GETs, particularly if you want to scrape their back > >> > catalog. > > >> > Unfortunately, I no longer have the script I created to do just such a > >> > thing in the past, but the process is rather straightforward, once you > >> > know where to look. > > > I am not sure how eTree fits in. Is that eTree.org? > > No, he's referring to the `xml.etree.elementtree` standard > module:http://docs.python.org/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html#module-xml.... > > Although since you're dealing with feeds, you might be able to use > Universal Feed Parser, which is specifically for > RSS/Atom:http://www.feedparser.org/ > > Cheers, > Chris > --http://blog.rebertia.com
Brilliant! I will give that a try. Cheers! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
