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export ~/.newsboat/urls including tags
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#!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
# this script exports the urls file to OPML, including tags. for that, all feeds must have only one tag | |
#usage: ./exportOPMLWithTags.py urls > urls.opml | |
#requeriments (just to get the title from a rss feed if it isn't cached in newsboat): | |
# pip install feedparser | |
#input-output example: | |
# | |
# $ cat urls | |
# https://xkcd.com/rss.xml "must" | |
# http://www.commitstrip.com/en/feed/? "must" | |
# https://jartigag.xyz/feed.xml "personal" | |
# | |
# $ cat urls.opml | |
# <?xml version="1.0" ?> | |
# <opml version="2.0"> | |
# <head/> | |
# <body> | |
# <outline title="must" type="rss"> | |
# <outline title="xkcd.com" type="rss" xmlUrl="https://xkcd.com/rss.xml"/> | |
# <outline title="CommitStrip" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.commitstrip.com/en/feed/?"/> | |
# </outline> | |
# <outline title="personal" type="rss"> | |
# <outline title="jartigag" type="rss" xmlUrl="https://jartigag.xyz/feed.xml"/> | |
# </outline> | |
# </body> | |
# </opml> | |
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET | |
from xml.dom import minidom | |
import sys, os | |
import csv | |
import sqlite3 | |
try: | |
if len(sys.argv)<2: raise Exception("input file needed") | |
inputfilename = sys.argv[1] | |
if not os.path.isfile(inputfilename): raise Exception(f"{inputfilename} not found") | |
with open(inputfilename) as f: | |
reader = csv.reader(f,delimiter=" ") | |
lines = list(reader) | |
root = ET.Element('opml', version='2.0') | |
head = ET.SubElement(root, 'head') | |
body = ET.SubElement(root, 'body') | |
try: | |
# get titles from ~/.newsboat/cache.db: | |
with sqlite3.connect(f"{os.environ['HOME']}/.newsboat/cache.db") as conn: | |
conn.row_factory = sqlite3.Row | |
c = conn.cursor() | |
c.execute("select rssurl,title from rss_feed") | |
db_rows = c.fetchall() | |
except sqlite.OperationalError: | |
pass | |
for line in lines: | |
if len(line)<2: | |
# lines must be `url "tag"`, so ignore this line | |
print(f"ignoring this line:\n{' '.join(line)}", file=sys.stderr) | |
continue | |
if not body: | |
# that is, body has no children | |
tag = ET.SubElement(body, 'outline', type='rss', title=line[1]) | |
elif line[1] not in [ o.attrib['title'] for o in body.findall('outline') ]: | |
# that is, this tag doesn't exist yet | |
tag = ET.SubElement(body, 'outline', type='rss', title=line[1]) | |
for tag in body.findall('outline'): | |
if tag.attrib['title']==line[1]: | |
# that is, this is the tag we are looking for | |
feed = ET.SubElement(tag, 'outline', type='rss', xmlUrl=line[0]) | |
for row in db_rows: | |
# look for the title among the cached ones | |
if row['rssurl']==line[0]: | |
feed.set('title', row['title']) | |
if 'title' not in feed.attrib: | |
# that is, this feed's title isn't in ~/.newsboat/cache.db | |
try: | |
import feedparser | |
print(f"getting title from {line[0]}", file=sys.stderr) | |
feed.set('title', feedparser.parse(line[0])['feed']['title']) | |
except (ModuleNotFoundError, KeyError): | |
# can't get title neither from cache.db nor the xml of the feed, | |
# so left title blank | |
feed.set('title', "") | |
print( | |
minidom.parseString( ET.tostring(root) ) | |
.toprettyxml(indent=" ") | |
) | |
except Exception as e: | |
print(e) |
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