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+---- Thread: [Python] Need help with a Python RSS feed reader (/showthread.php?tid=5658721)
Need help with a Python RSS feed reader - streetlawkarma - Jun 29, 2017
I'm trying to figure out how I can make a RSS feed reader that can take a huge list of RSS feeds, like this:
website.com/rss
website.com/rss
website.com/rss
website.com/rss
x100000 etc
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But I need to have a GUI where I can input keyword groups to filter the feeds, so that when I click the keyword group it shows a list of new feeds that can be right clicked or something and be opened in an external browser.
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I have been using a piece of software called feeddemon, but it crashes too easily when importing an XML file, so I need something that can just read one huge list from a text file or something as opposed to having to import a huge XML file.
The other thing about Feeddemon is that it scanned through the feeds to slow, so I need something that can go through the feed list quickly (and be able to set the thread count or something)
Is this doable?
* - lockhead - Jun 30, 2017
Of course this is doable. But if you don't have any experience in Python it is going to take some time to learn:
> Python basics (control flow, functions, classes, ..) I'd recommend watching thenewboston on YT and just reading tuts online. Python is pretty simple syntax-
wise.
> GUI programming in Python . I'd recommend Kivy or Tk
> Threading to execute many tasts simultaneously.
> RSS parser
Keep in mind though, that Python isn't known for it's speed. I don't know about feeddemon - maybe it's just crap - but I doubt Python would be faster. If you're going for speed consider C/++ or even Java. If you don't have any programming experience these languages will be a lot harder to get a grip of.