Implement RSS Reader Tool

Status: done

Overview

Create a simple RSS reader tool that can read RSS feeds in a compact format, with filtering capabilities.

Created 2025-01-23
tools · automation · feed
State:✅ Done
Completed:2025-04-13T19:35:07+02:00

Overview

Create a simple RSS reader tool that can read RSS feeds in a compact format, with filtering capabilities.

Implementation Details

Completed Features

  • ✅ Basic RSS feed parsing with feedparser
  • ✅ Rich table output format
  • ✅ URL validation
  • ✅ Error handling for invalid feeds
  • ✅ CLI interface with click
  • ✅ URL pattern exclusion
  • ✅ JSON output option
  • ✅ Max entries limit option

Usage Examples

# Basic usage - read feed
./tools/rss_reader.py https://example.com/feed.xml

# Exclude URLs containing certain patterns
./tools/rss_reader.py https://example.com/feed.xml -e ads -e sponsored

# Limit number of entries
./tools/rss_reader.py https://example.com/feed.xml --max-entries 10

# Output as JSON
./tools/rss_reader.py https://example.com/feed.xml --json

Dependencies

  • Python 3.10+
  • feedparser: RSS feed parsing
  • click: CLI interface
  • rich: Terminal formatting

Testing Results

  • ✅ Basic feed reading works
  • ✅ URL exclusion patterns work (tested with -e flag)
  • ✅ JSON output format works (tested with –json)
  • ✅ Max entries limit works (tested with –max-entries)
  • Test with invalid URLs
  • Test with malformed feeds
  • Test with various RSS feed formats

Example Output

# Basic table output (limited to 5 entries)
$ ./tools/rss_reader.py https://hnrss.org/newest --max-entries 5
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Date       ┃ Title                          ┃ Link                           ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ 2025-01-23 │ Trivy: The all-in-one open     │ http://trivy.dev/v0.58/        │
│            │ source security scanner        │                                │
...

# JSON output with filtering
$ ./tools/rss_reader.py https://hnrss.org/newest --max-entries 3 -e japan --json
[
  {
    "title": "Trivy: The all-in-one open source security scanner",
    "link": "http://trivy.dev/v0.58/",
    "date": "Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:39:45 +0000"
  },
  ...
]

Future Improvements

Future improvements have been moved to improve-rss-reader.md.

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