hfeed2atom

Convert h-feed pages to Atom 1.0 XML format for traditional feed readers. You can try it out at https://kartikprabhu.com/hfeed2atom

Installation

To install hfeed2atom use pip as follows:

pip install git+https://github.com/kartikprabhu/hfeed2atom.git --process-dependency-links

This will install hfeed2atom with its dependencies from pypi and mf2py from the experimental repo https://github.com/kartikprabhu/mf2py/tree/experimental.

Usage

hfeed2atom takes as arguments one or more of the following:

• doc: a string, a Python File object or a BeautifulSoup document containing the contents of an HTML page
• url: the URL for the page to be parsed. It is recommended to always send a URL argument as it is used to convert all other URLs in the document to absolute URLs.
• atom_url: the URL of the page with the ATOM file.
• hfeed: a Python dictionary of the microformats h-feed object. Use this if the document has already been parsed for microformats.

hfeed2atom returns the following as a tuple:

• Atom format of the h-feed, or None if there was an error.
• A string message of the error if any

The easiest way to use hfeed2atom in your own python code to parse the feed on a URL http://example.com

from hfeed2atom import hfeed2atom

atom, message = hfeed2atom(url = 'http://example.com')

With this code, hfeed2atom will do a GET request to http://example.com, find the first h-feed and return the Atom as a string.

If you already have the contents of the URL (by doing a GET request yourself, or if it is your own page on your server), then you can pass them as a doc argument as

atom, message = hfeed2atom(doc = contents, url = 'http://example.com')

doc can be a string, a Python File object or a BeautifulSoup document.

If you already have the h-feed microformats object of a page as a Python dictionary in the variable hfeed then use

atom, message = hfeed2atom(hfeed = hfeed, url = 'http://example.com')

Note, in this case hfeed2atom assumes that all the required properties for Atom are already in the hfeed variable and will not attempt to generate any fallback properties.

Features

• Finds first h-feed element to generate Atom feed, if no h-feed found defaults to using the top-level h-entries for the feed.
• Generates fallbacks for required Atom properties of the feed. The fallbacks, in order, are:
  • title : h-feed name property else, <title> element of the page else, Feed for URL.
  • id : h-feed uid or url property else, URL argument given.
  • updated date : h-feed updated or published property else, updated or published property of the latest entry.
• Generates fallback categories for the h-feed from the meta name='keywords'> element of the page.
• Generates fallback for required Atom properties of each entry in the h-feed. The fallbacks, in order, are:
  • title : h-entry name property if it is not same as content>value else, content property truncated to 50 characters else, uid or url of the entry.
  • id : h-entry uid property or url property else, error and skips that entry.
  • updated date : h-entry updated or published property else, error and skips that entry.

To Do

• Author discovery if the h-feed does not have an author property. Note <author> is an optional tag in Atom!

Go forth

Now use this yourself and give feedback.