Notificador de desktop em Python
import requests
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
# url of news rss feed
RSS_FEED_URL = "http://www.hindustantimes.com/rss/topnews/rssfeed.xml"
def loadRSS():
'''
utility function to load RSS feed
'''
# create HTTP request response object
resp = requests.get(RSS_FEED_URL)
# return response content
return resp.content
def parseXML(rss):
'''
utility function to parse XML format rss feed
'''
# create element tree root object
root = ET.fromstring(rss)
# create empty list for news items
newsitems = []
# iterate news items
for item in root.findall('./channel/item'):
news = {}
# iterate child elements of item
for child in item:
# special checking for namespace object content:media
if child.tag == '{http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/}content':
news['media'] = child.attrib['url']
else:
news[child.tag] = child.text.encode('utf8')
newsitems.append(news)
# return news items list
return newsitems
def topStories():
'''
main function to generate and return news items
'''
# load rss feed
rss = loadRSS()
# parse XML
newsitems = parseXML(rss)
return newsitems
Rishav Nath Pati