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Blog site generator in python
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This project is a simple static blog site generator written in python, utilizing pandoc to convert posts written in Markdown to HTML. It is essentially a follow up to my previous post: blog ...
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Create URL's, then download and print each RSS feed text
Looking for a more efficient way of achieving this. In particular the combine_all_rss_lists so I don't need all those params. Feedparser module doesn't accept lists which is why I've had to initially ...
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Fetching and modifying CNN headlines
This is a project I came up with just as an exercise with to familiarize myself with Python syntax and data types. I am just learning how to code and would like to avoid establishing bad habits. On ...
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A web scraper that looks for pre-defined words in news articles
I'm still fairly new to Python and web-scraping, but a colleague asked asked me if I could build a web-scraper that could be used by a think tank he's a member of to find news articles matching a pre-...
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Parse atom RSS feed with xml.dom.minidom
I had to parse a blogger RSS feed but I didn't have access to any third party modules like feedparser or lxml. I was stuck with the task of writing a library to parse RSS feeds; challenge accepted. I ...
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Converting YouTube channels to podcasts
I created a Django app that converts YouTube channels to podcasts. It uses the actual YouTube paths for the URLs. The idea is that the user can just find the YouTube address of the desired channel (...
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RSS to HTML script - version two
I wrote this script that downloads an RSS feed and converts it to HTML. One of my only concerns is my variable naming because I suck at naming things.
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Simple RSS to HTML converter
Is this code pythonic, easy to read, stable, or missing something?
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Avoiding use of .encode() in rss2html
My concern with this code is the excessive use of .encode('utf-8'). Any advice on refining these functions would be very helpful.
rss2html GitHub repo
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Simple hack to merge RSS feeds
Have I made any obvious mistakes?
Is this code clean?
Is there a better way to do this in python?
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Prototype spider for indexing RSS feeds
This code is super slow. I'm looking for advice on how to improve its performance.
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