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feedparser
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kurtmckee / feedparser

feedparser

Parse feeds in Python

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Parse feeds in Python

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Where it is used

  • Home Assistant — Add an RSS/Atom feed reader that polls feeds every hour and sends new entries into the event bus. The integration calls feedparser.parse. Source

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 7:56:55 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-04-15 11:45:33 UTC to 2025-10-04 03:33:01 UTC.

0122016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

1 sources
code_research·Apr 15, 2016
The selfoss reader [0] has a nice concept of extending the format of the incoming data feeds, would be also a very nice feature for your code. Even nicer it would be if new incoming data formats could be configured in yaml files without having to recompile. the selfoss author mentions these kind of data: * RSS Feeds * Images from a RSS Feed * Images from deviantArt Users * Images from tumblr * Your twitter timeline * Tweets of a twitter user * heise News with full content * golem News with full content * MMOSpy News with full content * RSS Feeds with readability certainly not the most important sources, but it gives an idea about how diverse data sources are on the net today, so limiting to rss and atom is not a good idea. maybe some people would like to add facebook streams or other "social" sources. Also please take a look at the extens
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ive testing suite of feedparser [1] - lots of feeds there, that will break any naive assumption about how clean real life data will be. [0] http://selfoss.aditu.de/ [1] https://github.com/kurtmckee/feedparser/tree/develop/tests
In Show HN: gofeed, a robust RSS and Atom Parser for Go

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