• ishartdoritos@lemmy.zip
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    22 hours ago

    These days you can probably vibe-code yourself the perfect RSS extension or even standalone app.

    Might give it a shot actually.

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      5 hours ago

      I’ve coded this and I’m a retard. Relative portion from a method:

      from urllib.request import urlopen
                  foundrss = False
                  for line in urlopen(self.channelurl):
                      for word in line.split():
                          if foundrss:
                              if not self.feedurl:
                                  self.feedurl = word.split(b'"')[1].decode("utf-8")
                                  if 'xml' not in self.feedurl:
                                      raise Exception("'xml' not found in feedurl")
                              elif not self.channelname: # feed url is set, extract the channel name that comes soon after
                                  if word.startswith(b'content='): # start collecting words
                                      self.channelname = [word.split(b'"')[1].decode("utf-8")]
                                      if word.count(b'"') == 2: # channel name is a single word
                                          self.channelname = self.channelname[0]
                                          return
                              else: # we have channelname started, just collect the rest of the words now
                                  if b'"' in word: # get text to the left of "
                                      self.channelname.append(word.split(b'"')[0].decode("utf-8"))
                                      self.channelname = ' '.join(self.channelname)
                                      return
                                  else:
                                      self.channelname.append(word.decode("utf-8"))
                          elif word == b'title="RSS"':
                              foundrss = True