Hi,
Making good progress with a script that collects rss feeds from a news website and emails headlines but wondering whether I can alter what I have to email only the new headlines.
My idea is that the new headlines would be compared with the previous ones using something like this:
= open('testlista.txt', 'r').read().split('\n')
>>> b = open('testlistb.txt', 'r').read().split('\n')
>>> c = open('difference.txt', 'w')
>>> c.write('\n'.join([comm for comm in b if not (comm in a)]))
>>> c.close()However, would I be best to use tempfile instead of lists? I would anticipate 100kb a day in total.
Not sure whether it matters, but existing stuff is as follows:
#! /usr/bin/env python
import urllib
import sys
import xml.dom.minidom
#The url of the feed
address = 'http://www.stuff.co.nz/rss/'
#Our actual xml document
f = open('alerttest.txt', 'w')
document = xml.dom.minidom.parse(urllib.urlopen(address))
for item in document.getElementsByTagName('item'):
title = item.getElementsByTagName('title')[0].firstChild.data
link = item.getElementsByTagName('link')[0].firstChild.data
description = item.getElementsByTagName('description')[0].firstChild.data
print>>f, '''<a href="%s">%s</a> (%s)''' % (link.encode('UTF8', 'replace'),
title.encode('UTF8','replace'),
description.encode('UTF8','replace'))
f.close()
import smtplib
# from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/399129/failing-to-send-email-with-the-python-example
FROMADDR = "orpheus.alert@gmail.com"
LOGIN = FROMADDR
PASSWORD = "elmrow97"
TOADDRS = ["blair.mayston@xtra.co.nz"]
SUBJECT = "Test alert"
msg = ("From: %s\r\nTo: %s\r\nSubject: %s\r\n\r\n"
% (FROMADDR, ", ".join(TOADDRS), SUBJECT) )
msg += open('alerttest.txt', 'r').read()
server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
server.set_debuglevel(1)
server.ehlo()
server.starttls()
server.login(LOGIN, PASSWORD)
server.sendmail(FROMADDR, TOADDRS, msg)
server.quit()Cheers,
Blair
