Answer by cleg for How to check if an RSS feed has been updated in Python?
For "good" feeds you can use ETag and last-modfied-since mechanism, it's described here http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/rssfeedstate.html But some servers doesn't support it, so you need to simply check post...
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Each feed item has an identifier, in item.id. Track those, together with their .updated (or .updated_parsed) entry, to check for new items. So, see if you already have seen the item (via item.id) or if...
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I am using the feedparser library in Python to get the various details from an RSS feed. Suppose I have pulled out 25 headlines titles from an RSS feed of a news channel. After an hour I run the...
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