pyPodcastParser

Introduction

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 most comfortable with the Requests library.

Installation

pip install pyPodcastParser

Usage

from pyPodcastParser.Podcast import Podcast
import requests

request = requests.get('https://some_rss_feed')
podcast = Podcast(request.content)

Objects and their Useful Attributes

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  • The cloud element aka RSS Cloud is not supported as it has been superseded by the superior PubSubHubbub protocal

Podcast

  • 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

Item

  • 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.

Credits

Testing

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License

The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2016 Jason Rigden

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