fossasia/searss

Name: searss

Owner: FOSSASIA

Description: Search to RSS tool

Created: 2016-11-19 06:38:37.0

Updated: 2018-05-24 16:37:45.0

Pushed: 2017-03-03 08:24:48.0

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Size: 727

Language: Python

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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.

onal arguments:
, --help            show this help message and exit
, --google              Set search engine as Google
, --bing                Set search engine as Bing
dg, --duckduckgo          Set search engine as DuckDuckGo
sk, --askcom            Set search engine as Ask.com
, --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.

thon rss-generator.py   
lect the search engine (0 for google / 1 for duckduckgo / 2 for bing / 3 for ask.com): 0
at 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