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Common RSS Elements¶

The most commonly used elements in RSS feeds (regardless of version) are title, link, description, publication date, and entry ID. The publication date comes from the pubDate element, and the entry ID comes from the guid element.

This sample RSS feed is at http://feedparser.org/docs/examples/rss20.xml.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Sample Feed</title>
<description>For documentation &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt;</description>
<link>http://example.org/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2002 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
<!-- other elements omitted from this example -->
<item>
<title>First entry title</title>
<link>http://example.org/entry/3</link>
<description>Watch out for &lt;span style="background-image:
url(javascript:window.location='http://example.org/')"&gt;nasty
tricks&lt;/span&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2002 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://example.org/entry/3</guid>
<!-- other elements omitted from this example -->
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

The channel elements are available in d.feed.

Accessing Common Channel Elements¶

>>> import feedparser
>>> d = feedparser.parse('http://feedparser.org/docs/examples/rss20.xml')
>>> d.feed.title
u'Sample Feed'
>>> d.feed.link
u'http://example.org/'
>>> d.feed.description
u'For documentation <em>only</em>'
>>> d.feed.published
u'Sat, 07 Sep 2002 00:00:01 GMT'
>>> d.feed.published_parsed
(2002, 9, 7, 0, 0, 1, 5, 250, 0)

The items are available in d.entries, which is a list. You access items in the list in the same order in which they appear in the original feed, so the first item is available in d.entries[0].

Accessing Common Item Elements¶

>>> import feedparser
>>> d = feedparser.parse('http://feedparser.org/docs/examples/rss20.xml')
>>> d.entries[0].title
u'First item title'
>>> d.entries[0].link
u'http://example.org/item/1'
>>> d.entries[0].description
u'Watch out for <span>nasty tricks</span>'
>>> d.entries[0].published
u'Thu, 05 Sep 2002 00:00:01 GMT'
>>> d.entries[0].published_parsed
(2002, 9, 5, 0, 0, 1, 3, 248, 0)
>>> d.entries[0].id
u'http://example.org/guid/1'

Tip

You can also access data from RSS feeds using Atom terminology. See Content Normalization for details.

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