http://www.nodalpoint.org/nodalpoint_tags/nar_webserver_publications Comments for "nar webserver publications" en http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/08/01/nar_2007_test_drive#comment-3866 <p>For the record, here is the "heroic" python script:</p> <p><code><br /> import feedparser<br /> d = feedparser.parse("http://bioinformatics.ca/links_directory/rss.php?group_id=8")<br /> for e in d.entries:<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; print "|[[%s|%s]]|%s|none yet|" % (e.links[0].href, e.title, e.summary)<br /> </code></p> <p>The real hero is the <a href="http://feedparser.org">feedparser python library</a> by Mark Pilgram.</p> <p>I cheated a little, since there was a tinsy bit of hand editing of the output required because some of the text in the RSS titles/descriptions contained stuff interpreted as wiki markup, which broke things. For a once off script, it was easier to hand edit the output than make the script fix those parts ...</p> <br class="clear" /> Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:46:57 -0400 pansapiens comment 3866 at http://www.nodalpoint.org