5.2.4. RSS — RSS feed parsing

The RSS module contains functions for parsing RSS data.

TODO: More information

Note

TODO: RSS builds on FeedParser. Link to their docs here.

This module defines the following functions:

RSS.FeedFromString(string)

Returns an RSS feed object by parsing the given string.

Parameter:string (str) – The RSS-formatted data to parse Returns:An RSS object created from the given data Return type:RSS

RSS.FeedFromURL(url, values=None, headers={}, cacheTime=None)

Behaves similarly to RSS.FeedFromString(), but parses the result of a given HTTP request rather than a given string.

Parameters:

• url (str) – The URL to request RSS-formatted data from from
• values (dict) – The values to use if making a POST request
• headers (dict) – Additional headers to include in the request
• cacheTime (int) – The maximum number of seconds the response should be cached for

Returns:

An RSS object created from the given data

Return type:

RSS