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Chapter: Days 52-54: Parsing RSS feeds with Feedparser
Lecture: Your 3 day overview
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First things first,
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let's go through the ReadMe file.
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Quick word of warning,
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feedparser is a very very quick topic.
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As you can see by this stuff on your screen,
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this is not going to take you very long.
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And yeah, reality is,
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that's what feedparser is.
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It's just that simple, that it's quick to learn.
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So Day 1, you are going to pretty much do everything.
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You're going to watch the videos,
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set up your environment,
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pull the feed and then parse it.
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Okay, so it'll involve using requests.
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Day 2, I'm going to show you how
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to do a quick, sort of tricky sanity check
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when parsing your feed.
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So, watch the Feedparses and the Check video
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and then that's pretty much everything you
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need to know by that point.
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So, I'd like you to pull and parse
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an RSS feed of your choice.
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A bit of practice for you on Day 2.
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Now on Day 3,
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just wrap it up by watching the concepts video
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and then I want you to come up with something to do
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with the data you're pulling from feedparser, okay.
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So, again, the usual stuff is there,
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like store it in the database or email it out.
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Build some sort of application around it,
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but I like the idea of maybe letting the user
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specify from a list
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what RSS tags they want to pull down, okay.
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So, that could be a cool little project.
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So, day three is just testing it.
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Playing it around, seeing how you go,
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but that's the three days for feedparser.
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They're going to be very quick
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and very small in size,
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but enjoy them nonetheless.
