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Introducing PyFeeds: DIY Atom feeds in times of social media and paywalls

Date Tue 02 July 2019 Tags Scrapy / PyFeeds

PyFeeds is an extensible tool written in Python that creates Atom feeds for websites which do not provide them at all or do not provide them with full text content. It is based on Scrapy and built with extensibility in mind. Currently it has support for Ars Technica, Facebook Pages …

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Parsing an XML document with a default namespace in Scrapy

Date Sat 05 November 2016 Tags Scrapy / XML / XPath / Python

While writing a new spider for Feeds I stumbled upon the following problem. I wanted to parse an XML feed with a default namespace but couldn't get it to work.

XML namespaces

First of all, what are XML namespaces anyway? They are used to avoid element name conflicts and are …

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