spots.py

import urllib2
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
from xml.dom import minidom

results = ET.Element('results')

def get_posts(url):
	retry = 0
	while (retry < 3):
		try:
			res = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
			break
		except:
			retry += 1
	
	try:
		root = ET.fromstring(res)
	except:
		return None

	items = root.findall('.//item')

	for item in items:
		title =  item.find('title').text
		s = title.find(' - ')
		user = title[:s]
		msg = title[s+3:]
		link = item.find('link').text
		date = item.find('pubDate').text
		description = item.find('description').text
		s = description.find('img src=')
		e = description.find('>',s)
		image = description[s+8:e]
		result_item = ET.Element('item')
		result_item.set('user', user)

		result_item.set('link', link)
		result_item.set('date', date)
		result_item.set('image', image)
		results.append(result_item)

	link = items[-1].find('link').text
	s = link.rfind('/')
	max = link[s+1:]

	return max

max = ''
for i in range(800):
	max = get_posts('http://spots.io/venue/74027012.rss?max=' + max)
	if max is None:
		break

print minidom.parseString(ET.tostring(results)).toprettyxml(indent="    ")