nmtan2001 / searss

Search to RSS tool

searss

Search to RSS tool

The goal of this mini-tool is gather search results and store it as an RSS feed on a server.

Requirements

• Python 2
• PIP
• Mechanize
• Feedgen
• BeautifulSoup4

Installing

Install requirements using pip install -r requirements.txt

Using

Run python rss-generator.py and enter the search query. A RSS feed will be displayed containing the search results.

To script the rss generator, pipe a query into rss-generator.py and write the result to a file, for example: echo "fossasia" | python rss-generator.py > /tmp/fossasia.rss