fetchFeeds.py: simple script to fetch RSS feeds into file

Requirements

• Python 2.7+
• html2text: textproc/py-html2text in FreeBSD ports.
• feedparser: textproc/py-feedparser in FreeBSD ports.

Usage

$ fetchFeeds.py [-h] --feed FEEDURL [--info] [--prefix PREFIX] [--quiet] [--raw]

• -h

  Show help message

• -f, --feed

  Feed URL, required

• -i, --info

  Only show feed info (title, URL)

• -p, --prefix

  Prefix of feed storage path

• -q, --quiet

  Quiet mode, no progress message is printed

• -r, --raw

  Raw mode, HTML tags is preserved.

Output

The feeds would be stored in [directory-to-store-feeds] (cwd if no sepcified) with the file name to be the timestamp of the feed.

The html tag in original feed would be striped using html2text.