Parse YouTube channel RSS feed data without additional libraries

parseYTfeed.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import urllib2
import time
from xml.etree import ElementTree as etree


class YTFeedParser(list):
    def __init__(self, url):
        rawfeeddata = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
        tree = etree.fromstring(rawfeeddata)
        items = tree.findall('channel/item')
        self.items = []
        formatstring = "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S +0000"
        for item in items:
            d = dict()
            for tag in "pubDate title link author".split(" "):
                d[tag] = item.find(tag).text
            d['parsed_date'] = time.strptime(d['pubDate'], formatstring)
            self.append(d)


# example usage
link = ('http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/LetsPlay/uploads?alt=rss&v='
        '2&orderby=published&client=ytapi-youtube-profile')
feed = YTFeedParser(link)
for feeditem in feed:
    for k, v in feeditem.items():
        print k, ":", v