PyRSS WIP July 5

PyRSS-July5.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)
# - call on headlines & print (specify ammount)) <item, title>
# - print text preview (body of article) (specify characters) <item, description>
# - Print URL Link <link>
# - ...
# - Do not die when encountering errors, but continue showing other feeds
# - 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.

# - 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 1                                                                       === Almost Totally Done.

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

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

def print_rss_feed(rss_xml):
    try:
        # Read the XML from the `rss_xml` string
        root = ET.fromstring(rss_xml)
    except:
        print("Oops! XML Library Error.")
        return 

    news_source = root.findall("./channel/title")[0].text

    # Loop over every item in the list, and print out the title, description and link
    item_list = root.findall("./channel/item") # No [0], grab all the items
    for item in item_list:
        print("-----")

        print(f"news source: {news_source}")

        item_title = item.findall("./title")[0].text
        print(f"title:       {item_title}")

        item_desc = item.findall("./description")[0].text
        print(f"description: {item_desc}")

        item_link = item.findall("./link")[0].text
        print(f"link:        {item_link}")

    
urls = ["http://feeds.feedburner.com/ign/all", "https://www.cnn.com/services/rss/", "https://englishcode.wordpress.com/feed", "https://media.rss.com/welovethestate/feed.xml", "https://moxie.foxnews.com/google-publisher/politics.xml"]

# Loop over all of the urls from the array, and print the feed for each one
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("======")