HTML to RSS

[jkarp1]

okay so heres what i want to do, i want to convert this webpage into RSS or grab a RSS feed from it (kinda new at this, not entirely sure on how it all works) but i just want the page converted to RSS so i can eventually have it as a RSS Feed on my desktop with geektool, any online apps or apps in general to do this for me ? or even a manual way i can do it ? i have researched this a bit and found a few answers for pc but nothing for mac

 

[xtacocorex]

okay so heres what i want to do, i want to convert this webpage into RSS or grab a RSS feed from it (kinda new at this, not entirely sure on how it all works) but i just want the page converted to RSS so i can eventually have it as a RSS Feed on my desktop with geektool, any online apps or apps in general to do this for me ? or even a manual way i can do it ? i have researched this a bit and found a few answers for pc but nothing for mac

You could probably use Python's HTMLParser library to go through the tables in the HTML source to scrape the data.

 

[jkarp1]

You could probably use Python's HTMLParser library to go through the tables in the HTML source to scrape the data.

Any directions on how to use it for this particular task ?

 

[Hansr]

2 sec on google turned this up: http://www.ezrss.it/

 

[xtacocorex]

Any directions on how to use it for this particular task ?

I'm working on a solution, need some time to figure it out, creating an HTML parser in Python a little challenging.

 

[xtacocorex]

Any directions on how to use it for this particular task ?

Well I have a solution, but it won't work if you use the url you provided. I wrote the code based upon the HTML source grabbed from Opera.

If you run it with the link you proved, I get garbage, it displays crap in the terminal and can't find the HTML tags.

Need to figure out what is going on.

 

[jkarp1]

If you run it with the link you proved, I get garbage, it displays crap in the terminal and can't find the HTML tags.

Thats the same issue i came across, seems that the webpage is a different format to most.

 

[jkarp1]

2 sec on google turned this up: http://www.ezrss.it/

I did get this to work on my desktop with geektool eventually, although i would of preferred to have it done in a more manual way that could be done with any webpage similar to the one i linked, so that i can do it in the future when there isnt a RSS feed supplied, but thankyou for your help, made things a lot more simple this time

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Here is what i ended up with, for anyone interested.

 

[xtacocorex]

I did get this to work on my desktop with geektool eventually, although i would of preferred to have it done in a more manual way that could be done with any webpage similar to the one i linked, so that i can do it in the future when there isnt a RSS feed supplied, but thankyou for your help, made things a lot more simple this time \

What is really weird is that the script I wrote for you, works occasionally, but not all the time. It's odd, but there are times where the HTML that Python pulls isn't complete garbage. I have no idea why, but I don't feel right giving you the script since it hardly works perfectly.