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NAME
podcastparser - podcastparser Documentation
podcastparser is a simple and fast podcast feed parser library in Python. The two primary users of the
library are the gPodder Podcast Client and the gpodder.net web service.
The following feed types are supported:
• Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
• Atom Syndication Format (RFC 4287)
The following specifications are supported:
• Paged Feeds (RFC 5005)
• Podlove Simple Chapters
These formats only specify the possible markup elements and attributes. We recommend that you also read
the Podcast Feed Best Practice guide if you want to optimize your feeds for best display in podcast
clients.
Where times and durations are used, the values are expected to be formatted either as seconds or as RFC
2326 Normal Play Time (NPT).
import podcastparser
import urllib
feedurl = 'http://example.com/feed.xml'
parsed = podcastparser.parse(feedurl, urllib.urlopen(feedurl))
# parsed is a dict
import pprint
pprint.pprint(parsed)
For both RSS and Atom feeds, only a subset of elements (those that are relevant to podcast client
applications) is parsed. This section describes which elements and attributes are parsed and how the
contents are interpreted/used.
RSS
rss@xml:base
Base URL for all relative links in the RSS file.
rss/channel
Podcast.
rss/channel/title
Podcast title (whitespace is squashed).
rss/channel/link
Podcast website.
rss/channel/description
Podcast description (whitespace is squashed).
rss/channel/image/url
Podcast cover art.
rss/channel/itunes:image
Podcast cover art (alternative).
rss/channel/atom:link@rel=payment
Podcast payment URL (e.g. Flattr).
rss/channel/item
Episode.
rss/channel/item/guid
Episode unique identifier (GUID), mandatory.
rss/channel/item/title
Episode title (whitespace is squashed).
rss/channel/item/link
Episode website.
rss/channel/item/description
Episode description (whitespace is squashed).
rss/channel/item/itunes:subtitle
Episode subtitled / one-line description (whitespace is squashed).
rss/channel/item/content:encoded
Episode description in HTML.
rss/channel/item/itunes:duration
Episode duration.
rss/channel/item/pubDate
Episode publication date.
rss/channel/item/atom:link@rel=payment
Episode payment URL (e.g. Flattr).
rss/channel/item/atom:link@rel=enclosure
File download URL (@href), size (@length) and mime type (@type).
rss/channel/item/media:content
File download URL (@url), size (@fileSize) and mime type (@type).
rss/channel/item/enclosure
File download URL (@url), size (@length) and mime type (@type).
rss/channel/item/psc:chapters
Podlove Simple Chapters, version 1.1 and 1.2.
rss/channel/item/psc:chapters/psc:chapter
Chapter entry (@start, @title, @href and @image).
ATOM
For Atom feeds, podcastparser will handle the following elements and attributes:
atom:feed
Podcast.
atom:feed/atom:title
Podcast title (whitespace is squashed).
atom:feed/atom:subtitle
Podcast description (whitespace is squashed).
atom:feed/atom:icon
Podcast cover art.
atom:feed/atom:link@href
Podcast website.
atom:feed/atom:entry
Episode.
atom:feed/atom:entry/atom:id
Episode unique identifier (GUID), mandatory.
atom:feed/atom:entry/atom:title
Episode title (whitespace is squashed).
atom:feed/atom:entry/atom:link@rel=enclosure
File download URL (@href), size (@length) and mime type (@type).
atom:feed/atom:entry/atom:link@rel=(self|alternate)
Episode website.
atom:feed/atom:entry/atom:link@rel=payment
Episode payment URL (e.g. Flattr).
atom:feed/atom:entry/atom:content
Episode description (in HTML or plaintext).
atom:feed/atom:entry/atom:published
Episode publication date.
atom:feed/atom:entry/psc:chapters
Podlove Simple Chapters, version 1.1 and 1.2.
atom:feed/atom:entry/psc:chapters/psc:chapter
Chapter entry (@start, @title, @href and @image).
Simplified, fast RSS parser
exception podcastparser.FeedParseError(msg, exception, locator)
Exception raised when asked to parse an invalid feed
This exception allows users of this library to catch exceptions without having to import the XML
parsing library themselves.
podcastparser.file_basename_no_extension(filename)
Returns filename without extension
>>> file_basename_no_extension('/home/me/file.txt')
'file'
>>> file_basename_no_extension('file')
'file'
podcastparser.is_html(text)
Tests whether the given string contains HTML encoded data
podcastparser.normalize_feed_url(url)
Normalize and convert a URL. If the URL cannot be converted (invalid or unknown scheme), None is
returned.
This will also normalize feed:// and itpc:// to http://.
>>> normalize_feed_url('itpc://example.org/podcast.rss')
'http://example.org/podcast.rss'
If no URL scheme is defined (e.g. “curry.com”), we will simply assume the user intends to add a
http:// feed.
>>> normalize_feed_url('curry.com')
'http://curry.com/'
It will also take care of converting the domain name to all-lowercase (because domains are not
case sensitive):
>>> normalize_feed_url('http://Example.COM/')
'http://example.com/'
Some other minimalistic changes are also taken care of, e.g. a ? with an empty query is removed:
>>> normalize_feed_url('http://example.org/test?')
'http://example.org/test'
Leading and trailing whitespace is removed
>>> normalize_feed_url(' http://example.com/podcast.rss ')
'http://example.com/podcast.rss'
Incomplete (too short) URLs are not accepted
>>> normalize_feed_url('http://') is None
True
Unknown protocols are not accepted
>>> normalize_feed_url('gopher://gopher.hprc.utoronto.ca/file.txt') is None
True
podcastparser.parse(url, stream, max_episodes=0)
Parse a podcast feed from the given URL and stream
Parameters
• url – the URL of the feed. Will be used to resolve relative links
• stream – file-like object containing the feed content
• max_episodes – maximum number of episodes to return. 0 (default) means no limit
Returns
a dict with the parsed contents of the feed
podcastparser.parse_length(text)
Parses a file length
>>> parse_length(None)
-1
>>> parse_length('0')
-1
>>> parse_length('unknown')
-1
>>> parse_length('100')
100
podcastparser.parse_pubdate(text)
Parse a date string into a Unix timestamp
>>> parse_pubdate('Fri, 21 Nov 1997 09:55:06 -0600')
880127706
>>> parse_pubdate('2003-12-13T00:00:00+02:00')
1071266400
>>> parse_pubdate('2003-12-13T18:30:02Z')
1071340202
>>> parse_pubdate('Mon, 02 May 1960 09:05:01 +0100')
-305049299
>>> parse_pubdate('')
0
>>> parse_pubdate('unknown')
0
podcastparser.parse_time(value)
Parse a time string into seconds
See RFC2326, 3.6 “Normal Play Time” (HH:MM:SS.FRACT)
>>> parse_time('0')
0
>>> parse_time('128')
128
>>> parse_time('00:00')
0
>>> parse_time('00:00:00')
0
>>> parse_time('00:20')
20
>>> parse_time('00:00:20')
20
>>> parse_time('01:00:00')
3600
>>> parse_time(' 03:02:01')
10921
>>> parse_time('61:08')
3668
>>> parse_time('25:03:30 ')
90210
>>> parse_time('25:3:30')
90210
>>> parse_time('61.08')
61
>>> parse_time('01:02:03.500')
3723
>>> parse_time(' ')
0
podcastparser.parse_type(text)
“normalize” a mime type
>>> parse_type('text/plain')
'text/plain'
>>> parse_type('text')
'application/octet-stream'
>>> parse_type('')
'application/octet-stream'
>>> parse_type(None)
'application/octet-stream'
podcastparser.remove_html_tags(html)
Remove HTML tags from a string and replace numeric and named entities with the corresponding
character, so the HTML text can be displayed in a simple text view.
podcastparser.squash_whitespace(text)
Combine multiple whitespaces into one, trim trailing/leading spaces
>>> squash_whitespace(' some text with a lot of spaces ')
'some text with a lot of spaces'
This is a list of podcast-related XML namespaces that are not yet supported by podcastparser, but might
be in the future.
CHAPTER MARKS
• rawvoice RSS: Rating, Frequency, Poster, WebM, MP4, Metamark (kind of chapter-like markers)
• IGOR: Chapter Marks
OTHERS
• libSYN RSS Extensions: contactPhone, contactEmail, contactTwitter, contactWebsite, wallpaper, pdf,
background
• Comment API: Comments to a given item (readable via RSS)
• MVCB: Error Reports To Field (usually a mailto: link)
• Syndication Module: Update period, frequency and base (for skipping updates)
• Creative Commons RSS: Creative commons license for the content
• Pheedo: Original link to website and original link to enclosure (without going through pheedo redirect)
• WGS84: Geo-Coordinates per item
• Conversations Network: Intro duration in milliseconds (for skipping the intro), ratings
• purl DC Elements: dc:creator (author / creator of the podcast, possibly with e-mail address)
• Tristana: tristana:self (canonical URL to feed)
• Blip: Show name, show page, picture, username, language, rating, thumbnail_src, license
• genindex
• modindex
• search
AUTHOR
gPodder Team
COPYRIGHT
2018, gPodder Team