Feedfinder3

A fork of https://github.com/dfm/feedfinder2

Adding functionality to validate the activity of feeds

Original README

This is a Python library for finding links to feeds on a website.

It is based on feedfinder - originally written by Mark Pilgrim and subsequently maintained by Aaron Swartz until his untimely death.

Usage

Feedfinder2 offers a single public function: find_feeds. You would use it as follows:

from feedfinder3 import find_feeds
feeds = find_feeds(
    "xkcd.com",
    validate_options={
        "min_article_count": 1,  # feed should have at least 1 article
        "max_day_interval": 30,  # feed should be updated in the last 30 days
        "exclude_keywords": ['comments', 'jobs']  # exclude feed urls, containing "comments" or "jobs"
    }
)

Now, feeds is the list: ['http://xkcd.com/atom.xml', 'http://xkcd.com/rss.xml']. There is some attempt made to rank feeds from best candidate to worst but... well... you never know.

License

Feedfinder2 is licensed under the MIT license (see LICENSE).