Create an RSS feed from an SQL query

tsch () — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 02:51:47 GMT



#!/usr/bin/env python

# -*- encoding: latin1 -*-



import datetime,PyRSS2Gen,sqlobject

from sqlobject.postgres import builder



con = builder()(user = 'user', passwd = '', host = 'localhost', db='name')



# set db encoding (maybe optional)

con.queryOne("SET client_encoding TO 'latin1'; SELECT 1;")



items = []

for res in con.queryAll("""SELECT title,url,datum,description FROM table ORDER BY datum DESC LIMIT 30"""):

    items.append(

        PyRSS2Gen.RSSItem(

        title = res[0], link = res[1],

        description = """%s
on %s
%s"""%(res[0],res[2],res[]3),

        guid = PyRSS2Gen.Guid(res[1]), pubDate = res[2]))



    # generate rss feed

PyRSS2Gen.RSS2(

    title         = "sql2rss feed",

    link          = "http://localhost/die URL",

    description   = "The latest sql2rss news",

    lastBuildDate = datetime.datetime.now(),

    items         = items).write_xml(open("sql2rss.xml", "w"))

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Create an RSS feed from an SQL query

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