Python script to upload your Google Reader subscriptions to selfoss.

googlereader2selfoss.py

#!/usr/bin/python

#
#  Takes a Google Reader subscriptions file, and adds them all (with tags) to selfoss
#  First arg: xml file.  Second arg: URL to selfoss installation
#

import sys
import urllib
import urllib2
import xml.parsers.expat
tag = ""

# 3 handler functions
def start_element(name, attrs):
    global tag
    if name != "outline":
        return
    if attrs.get("type") == "rss":
        urllib2.urlopen(sys.argv[2] + "/source", urllib.urlencode({"title": attrs["title"], "tags": tag, "spout": "spouts\\rss\\feed", "url": attrs["xmlUrl"]})).read()
    else:
        tag = attrs["text"]
def end_element(name):
    pass
def char_data(data):
    pass

p = xml.parsers.expat.ParserCreate()

p.StartElementHandler = start_element
p.EndElementHandler = end_element
p.CharacterDataHandler = char_data

if len(sys.argv) < 3:
    print "Usage: %s subscriptions.xml http://example.com/selfoss"
    sys.exit(1)

p.ParseFile(open(sys.argv[1]))