rss2html.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""Simple RSS to HTML converter."""

__version__ = "0.0.2"
__author__ = "Ricky L Wilson"

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from feedparser import parse as parse_feed


TEMPLATE = u"""
<h2 class='title'>{title}</h2>
<a class='link' href='{link}'>{title}</a>
<span class='description'>{summary}</span>
"""

def entry_to_html(**kwargs):
    """Formats feedparser entry."""
    return TEMPLATE.format(**kwargs).encode('utf-8')


def convert_feed(url):
    """Main loop."""
    html_fragments = [entry_to_html(**entry) for entry in parse_feed(url).entries]
    return BeautifulSoup("\n".join(html_fragments), 'lxml').prettify()


def save_file(url, filename):
    """Saves data to disc."""
    with open(filename, 'w') as file_object:
        file_object.write(convert_feed(url).encode('utf-8'))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    save_file('http://stackoverflow.com/feeds', 'index.html')
    with open('index.html') as fobj:
        print fobj.read()