picot

Picot is a library to read, select and extract information from RSS feeds.

Installation

You can install it using pip install as usual:

pip install picot

Usage

As a module

Picot is intended to be used mostly as a module, providing with some RSS feed goodies.

import picot.feed

entries = picot.feed.Feed(url)
for entry in entries:
    print(entry['title'])

Filter

In order to make filtering easier, you can provide Feed with a function determining what entries are selected:

entries = picot.feed.Feed(url, filter_func=lambda x: x['title'].startswith('How to'))

Formatting

It provides with a formatting function, defining how entries are represented:

entries = picot.feed.Feed(url, format_func=lambda x: '{} {}'.format(x['title'], x['link']))

As a command

While intended to be used as a library, Picot can be invoked as a command line tool to get the titles of the entries in an RSS:

$ picot <RSS URL>