pyPodcastParser is a podcast parser. It should parse any RSS file, but it specializes in parsing podcast rss feeds. pyPodcastParser is agnostic about the method you use to get a podcast RSS feed. Most user will be comfortable with the Requests library.
pip install pyPodcastParser
from pyPodcastParser.Podcast import Podcast
import requests
response = requests.get('https://some_rss_feed')
podcast = Podcast(response.content)
Notes:
- All attributes with empty or nonexistent element will have a value of None.
- Attributes are generally strings or lists of strings, because we want to record the literal value of elements.
- The cloud element aka RSS Cloud is not supported as it has been superseded by the superior PubSubHubbub protocal
- categories (list) A list for strings representing the feed categories
- copyright (string): The feed's copyright
- creative_commons (string): The feed's creative commons license
- items (list): A list of Item objects
- description (string): The feed's description
- generator (string): The feed's generator
- image_title (string): Feed image title
- image_url (string): Feed image url
- image_link (string): Feed image link to homepage
- image_width (string): Feed image width
- image_height (Sample H4string): Feed image height
- itunes_author_name (string): The podcast's author name for iTunes
- itunes_block (boolean): Does the podcast block itunes
- itunes_categories (list): List of strings of itunes categories
- itunes_complete (string): Is this podcast done and complete
- itunes_explicit (string): Is this item explicit. Should only be "yes" and "clean."
- itune_image (string): URL to itunes image
- itunes_keywords (list): List of strings of itunes keywords
- itunes_new_feed_url (string): The new url of this podcast
- language (string): Language of feed
- last_build_date (string): Last build date of this feed
- link (string): URL to homepage
- managing_editor (string): managing editor of feed
- published_date (string): Date feed was published
- pubsubhubbub (string): The URL of the pubsubhubbub service for this feed
- owner_name (string): Name of feed owner
- owner_email (string): Email of feed owner
- subtitle (string): The feed subtitle
- title (string): The feed title
- ttl (string): The time to live or number of minutes to cache feed
- web_master (string): The feed's webmaster
- date_time (datetime): When published
- author (string): The author of the item
- comments (string): URL of comments
- creative_commons (string): creative commons license for this item
- description (string): Description of the item.
- enclosure_url (string): URL of enclosure
- enclosure_type (string): File MIME type
- enclosure_length (integer): File size in bytes
- guid (string): globally unique identifier
- itunes_author_name (string): Author name given to iTunes
- itunes_block (boolean): It this Item blocked from itunes
- itunes_closed_captioned: (string): It is this item have closed captions
- itunes_duration (string): Duration of enclosure
- itunes_explicit (string): Is this item explicit. Should only be "yes" and "clean."
- itune_image (string): URL of item cover art
- itunes_order (string): Override published_date order
- itunes_subtitle (string): The item subtitle
- itunes_summary (string): The summary of the item
- link (string): The URL of item.
- published_date (string): Date item was published
- title (string): The title of item.
- date_time (datetime): When published
https://github.com/jrigden/pyPodcastParser/issues/new
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Twitter:
Version 2.0.0
- Removed most time attributes and replaced then them with more concise and versatile datetime object
Version 1.1.1
- Fixed missed named attribute in items
Version 1.1.0
- Added Validation for RSS and podcasts
- Added several useful time attributes
https://github.com/jrigden/pyPodcastParser
http://pypodcastparser.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
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