fossasia/searss

Search to RSS tool

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Search To RSS Tool

The goal of this mini-tool is to gather search results and store them as RSS feeds on a server.

Dependencies

• Python 2.x
• Pip
• Mechanize
• Feedgen
• BeautifulSoup4
• Requests

Installing

1. Clone this repository git clone https://github.com/fossasia/searss
2. cd into directory cd searss
3. Install requirements using pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage and Options

Run python rss-generator.py -h to view the help menu.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -g, --google              Set search engine as Google
  -b, --bing                Set search engine as Bing
  -ddg, --duckduckgo          Set search engine as DuckDuckGo
  -ask, --askcom          	Set search engine as Ask.com
  -q, --query           Specify search query. eg : --query "xkcd comics"

If rss-generator.py is run without any arguments, it will prompt you for the search engine and the query.

$ python rss-generator.py   
$ Select the search engine (0 for google / 1 for duckduckgo / 2 for bing / 3 for ask.com): 0
$ What do you want to search for ? >> xkcd comics

Piping into files

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