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Feedmaker: URL + CSS selectors = RSS feed

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158 points mustaphah | 1 comments | 19 Sep 25 21:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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mg ◴[20 Sep 25 05:52 UTC] No.45310784[source]▶
That is a good idea.

59 requirements, including Django, seems pretty heavy though?

For my own RSS feed, I use this 48 line Python file with no dependencies outside the standard library:

https://github.com/no-gravity/atomfeed.py

It takes an array with the entries as input, not a web page. But I guess the HTML parsing should take no more than another few lines? For HTML parsing, I have good experiences with the lxml module which is in the Debian repos. It is fast and works pretty well.

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1. oxalorg ◴[20 Sep 25 12:10 UTC] No.45312638[source]▶
I recently added the python-feedgen module for creating feeds in my blog generator: https://github.com/oxalorg/genox/commit/3a73013ffe82930b1a7e...

I always love removing dependencies and simplifying software. I will try and switch to a simpler implementation like yours, thanks for sharing!