[clue-tech] RSS Parser for any 'P' language

[Jed S. Baer]

Hi Folks.

Due to not liking the various feed aggregator apps I can find in the
Ubuntu repositories, I'm at the point of looking at writing my own. A
quick web search reveals many many choices, and I'm not conversant enough
on the subject to really evaluate one vs. the other anyway. But it seems
I might soon become so.

I'm about equally rusty in PHP and Perl, and haven't written any Python,
so there's maybe not a lot to recommend one language over the other -- I
think I can pick up Python quickly enough if I have a need to (despite
syntactically significant whitespace [shudder]).

What I do want is support for all flavors of RSS, and Atom. I want
something that does as much of the work for me as possible, and I want it
to be very tolerant of glitchy feeds.

Mark Pilgrim's Universal Feed Parser seems to be the one I hear most
about. Maybe that's why I think Python is the way to go. But if there are
good libraries for Perl or PHP, I'd like to know what people recommend.

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