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Search To RSS Tool
The goal of this mini-tool is to gather search results and store them as RSS feeds on a server.
Dependencies
Installing
- Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/fossasia/searss - cd into directory
cd searss - Install requirements using
pip install -r requirements.txt
Usage and Options
Run python rss-generator.py -h to view the help menu.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-g, --google Set search engine as Google
-b, --bing Set search engine as Bing
-ddg, --duckduckgo Set search engine as DuckDuckGo
-ask, --askcom Set search engine as Ask.com
-q, --query Specify search query. eg : --query "xkcd comics"
If rss-generator.py is run without any arguments, it will prompt you for the search engine and the query.
$ python rss-generator.py
$ Select the search engine (0 for google / 1 for duckduckgo / 2 for bing / 3 for ask.com): 0
$ What do you want to search for ? >> xkcd comics
Piping into files
To script the rss generator, pipe a query into rss-generator.py and write the result to a file, for example:
python rss-generator.py --google --query "fossasia" > /tmp/fossasia.rss