# Downloads full articles for RSS 2.0 feed and replaces original articles. # # Make sure to have all dependencies installed: # pip3 install newspaper3k # pip3 install asyncio (if using parallel version of the script) # # You must provide raw RSS 2.0 UTF-8 feed XML data as input, for example with curl: # curl 'http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition.rss' | python ./scrape-rss2.py "4" # # You must provide three command line arguments: # scrape-rss2.py [NUMBER-OF-PARALLEL-THREADS] import json import re import sys import time import html import requests import distutils.util import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET from newspaper import Article no_threads = int(sys.argv[1]) if no_threads > 1: import asyncio from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor sys.stdin.reconfigure(encoding='utf-8') rss_data = sys.stdin.read() rss_document = ET.fromstring(rss_data) def process_article(article): try: link = article.find("link").text f = Article(link, keep_article_html = True) f.download() f.parse() article.find("description").text = f.article_html except: pass # Scrape articles. if no_threads > 1: with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers = no_threads) as executor: futures = [] for article in rss_document.findall(".//item"): futures.append(executor.submit(process_article, article)) for future in futures: future.result() else: for article in rss_document.findall(".//item"): process_article(article) print(ET.tostring(rss_document, encoding = "unicode"))