PyRSS WIP July 16 2023

el-plan.py

# RSS Specification: https://www.rssboard.org/rss-draft-1
# Sample RSS XML file: https://www.rssboard.org/files/rss-2.0-sample.xml

# Python XML documentation: https://docs.python.org/3/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html
# Juicy xpath thingy for looking up elements: https://docs.python.org/3/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html#xpath-support

# The plan:
# Plan (real (real v reall)) (extremely real) (non-fake)
# - call on headlines & print (specify ammount)) <item, title> - DONE?
# - print text preview (body of article) (specify characters) <item, description> - DONE
# - Print URL Link <link> - DONE
# - ...
# - Do not die when encountering errors, but continue showing other feeds - DONE
# - Image Preview (covert to Ascii with shady libs) 
# - Random article Function...?
# - Remove Non XML RSS feed Links, maybe print a warning - error? 
# - Gui????? maybe 
# - ???
# - Profit.

# - DAY 1                                                                       === Almost Totally Done.
# - Nerd Plan
# - Downlaod XML from RSS feed (download manually first for conveneince)        === DONE 
# - Parse the properties we need from the downloaded XML file                   === DONE
# - Print them bad boys out                                                     === DONE
# - Profit.                                                                     === CLOSE ENOUGH

# - DAY 2
# - Date / Time                                                                 === DONE
# - Random                                                                      === NOT DONE     
# - Added the Entry Limit                                                       === DONE

PyRSS-July16.py

import sys
import random 
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
from urllib.request import urlopen

print("💜 testie line for my bestie line 💜")

def get_element(article, name):
    item_list = article.findall(name)
    if len(item_list) > 0:
        return item_list[0].text
    else:
        return "Error: No Entry."

def print_rss_article(article):
    item_title = get_element(article, "./title")
    print(f"Title:       {item_title}")

    item_desc = get_element(article, "./description")
    print(f"Description: {item_desc}")

    item_date = get_element(article, "./pubDate")
    print(f"Date:        {item_date}")

    item_link = get_element(article, "./link")
    print(f"Link:        {item_link}")

def get_article_list(rss_xml):
    try:
        root = ET.fromstring(rss_xml)
    except:
        print("Oops! XML Library Error.")
        return []

    article_list = root.findall("./channel/item")
    news_source = root.findall("./channel/title")
    # Give me 1 second
    #I am getting a bit tired + hungry + i gotta shower later, i have another like 20 min left in me, if we can try to finish up a section by then
    return article_list
                
def print_rss_feed(rss_xml):
    article_list = get_article_list(rss_xml)

    amount_of_articles_printed = 0
    for article in article_list:
        # if amount of articles printed > 10 then stop
        amount_of_articles_printed += 1
        if amount_of_articles_printed > 10:
            break
    
        print("-----")

        print_rss_article(article)

        # print(f"News source: {news_source}")

urls = ["https://media.rss.com/gaypropaganda/feed.xml",  "http://feeds.feedburner.com/ign/all", "https://anchor.fm/s/597282c/podcast/rss", "https://steamcommunity.com/groups/freegamesfinders/rss/", "https://kotaku.com/rss", "https://joeroganexp.libsyn.com/rss", "http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_us.rss", "https://englishcode.wordpress.com/feed", "https://media.rss.com/welovethestate/feed.xml", "https://moxie.foxnews.com/google-publisher/politics.xml"]

def RandomArticle():
    random_index = random.randrange(0, len(urls))
    random_url = urls[random_index]

    with urlopen(random_url) as response:
        response_rss = response.read()
        article_list = get_article_list(response_rss)
        if len(article_list) == 0:
            print(f"Oh no, no rss found please give a better url my great friend, {random_url} is broken")
            return

        article_index = random.randrange(0, len(article_list))
        random_article = article_list[article_index]
        print_rss_article(random_article)
    print("======")

# Output: "Hello there bestie my great friend the dearest best person i love so much, <some name> 💜"

# Loop over all of the urls from the array, and print the feed for each one
def AllArticles():
    for url in urls:
        # Download the RSS feed from the URL
        with urlopen(url) as response:
            response_rss = response.read()
            # Parse and print the feed :)
            print_rss_feed(response_rss)
        print("======")

if len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] == "random":
    RandomArticle()
else:
    AllArticles()