Feed Elements

[mean_gene]

Anyone know the syntax for accessing the different feed elements?

There's a bit of info in the sample code sticky but it doesn't work (might be missing an import...feedparser?).

I'm guessing this is the title of the article:
curarticle.title

Not sure what this is:
curarticle.title.upper

This is probably used for loops:
curfeed.articles

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by mean_gene

Anyone know the syntax for accessing the different feed elements?

There are 4 elements in an article of a feed - This will print them:

    def parse_feeds (self): 
      feeds = BasicNewsRecipe.parse_feeds(self) 
      for feed in feeds:
        for article in feed.articles[:]:
          print 'article.title is: ', article.title
          print 'article.url is: ', article.url
          print 'article.date is: ', article.date
          print 'article.text_summary is: ', article.text_summary
      return feeds

A Feed has a feed name and a list of articles. You set the feed name in the recipe.

I'm guessing this is the title of the article:
curarticle.title

"title" is the title and "curarticle" is the article being processed in a loop - see above.

Not sure what this is:
curarticle.title.upper

The title has been forced to upper case.

[mean_gene]

Thanks for the quick response; that helps a lot.
Is "feed.title" the title of the feed?

Also, does python care where I place the parse_feeds block of code (i.e. above/below the "feeds=[]" section)

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by mean_gene

Thanks for the quick response; that helps a lot.
Is "feed.title" the title of the feed?

The title of a feed object is assigned in the recipe. I've never needed to access it, since I've always assigned the title I want it to have. Why do you want to know the variable name?

Also, does python care where I place the parse_feeds block of code (i.e. above/below the "feeds=[]" section)

No.

[mean_gene]

Why do you want to know the variable name?

Merging two feeds together.

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by mean_gene

Merging two feeds together.

I've never needed to do that, but the sticky code has the best info I know of.

[mean_gene]

Yeah I've been reading through the sticky code to get some ideas. I should have something working for me soon...