#!/usr/bin/env python """ RSS.py Classes for working with RSS channels as arbitrary data structures. Requires Python 2.2 or newer and PyXML 0.7.1 or newer. ChannelBase - Base class for RSS Channels. CollectionChannel - RSS Channel modeled as a URI-per-entry dictionary. TrackingChannel - RSS Channel modeled as an item-per-entry dictionary. RSSParser - Multi-format RSS/XML Parser. Typically, the *Channel clases will be most useful to developers. This library provides tools for working with RSS feeds as data structures. The core is an RSS parser capable of understanding most RSS formats, and a serializer that produces RSS1.0. The RSS channel itself can be represented as any arbitrary data structure; two such structures are provided both as examples and to service common usage. This approach allows channels to be manipulated and stored in a fashion that suits both their semantics and the applications that access them. Both the parser and the serializer have the following limitations: - RSS 1.0 "rich content" modules are not supported - RSS 0.9x features that rely on attributes are not supported - RDF is not understood; this library does not expose statements or understand RDF syntax beyond that documented in RSS1.0 (taking into account the previously listed limitations) The RSS format is made up of three metadata sections (channel, image, and textinput) and a list of items. Each individual metadata section and each item is passed around as an "item dictionary", which is a Python dictionary with (namespace, localname) tuples as keys. The values of the dictionaries are always strings; they may contain markup, which will be rendered into the RSS/XML when serialized. Individual items are found by using an "item identifier"; this is a channel-unique, string identifier for any given item. Item identifiers may be generated in a variety of ways, depending on the requirements of the channel. Certain types of channel metadata are automatically generated, and will not be returned or honored when accessed. They includes the "items", "image" and "textinput" children of the channel element. TODO: - any markup (and the content inside) in item or metadata children (e.g., HTML in a will be silently ignored. - test suite - a function (XPath-based?) to detect a channel's type and return the appropriate class. - pay attention to when appropriate. """ __license__ = """ Copyright (c) 2004 Mark Nottingham Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. """ __version__ = "0.46" import UserDict, sys, codecs, sha, types, signal import xml.sax as sax import xml.sax.saxutils as saxutils import cPickle as pickle import cStringIO as StringIO versionURI = 'http://www.mnot.net/python/RSS.py?version=%s' % __version__ class _NamespaceMap: """ Prefix <-> Namespace map. Hold prefix->namespace mappings, and generate new prefixes when necessary. Exposes prefix->URI map as attributes, URI->prefix through getPrefix(URI). """ def __init__(self): self._nsID = 0 # seed for namespace prefix generation self._prefixMap = {} self.rdf = 'http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#' self.rss10 = 'http://purl.org/rss/1.0/' self.rss09 = 'http://my.netscape.com/rdf/simple/0.9/' self.rss091 = 'http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/rss091/' self.dc = 'http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/' self.syn = 'http://purl.org/rss/modules/syndication/' self.content = 'http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/' self.admin = 'http://webns.net/mvcb/' self.ag = 'http://purl.org/rss/modules/aggregation/' self.annotate = 'http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/annotate/' self.cp = 'http://my.theinfo.org/changed/1.0/rss/' self.company = 'http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/company' self.event = 'http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/event/' self.slash = 'http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/' self.html = 'http://www.w3.org/html4/' def __setattr__(self, attr, value): self.__dict__[attr] = value if attr[0] != '_': self._prefixMap[value] = attr def getPrefix(self, URI): """ Get the prefix for a given URI; generate one if it doesn't exist. """ try: if URI == self.rss10: return None # special case return self._prefixMap[URI] except KeyError: o = [] d = self._nsID while 1: o.insert(0, d % 26) d = d / 26 if not d: break candidate = "".join(map(lambda a: chr(a+97), o)) self._nsID = self._nsID + 1 if candidate in self._prefixMap.values(): candidate = self.getPrefix(URI) setattr(self, candidate, URI) return candidate ns = _NamespaceMap() # possible namespaces for RSS docs (None included for 0.9x) rssNamespaces = [ns.rss09, ns.rss10, None] # major sections of a RSS file rssSections = [ (ns.rss10, 'channel'), (ns.rss10, 'image'), (ns.rss10, 'textarea') ] # RSS core element localnames rssElements = ['rss', 'channel', 'image', 'textarea', 'item', 'items', 'title', 'link', 'description', 'url'] # RSS elements whose data is in an rdf:resource attribute rdfResources = [ (ns.rss10, 'image'), (ns.rss10, 'textarea'), (ns.admin, 'errorReportsTo'), (ns.admin, 'generatorAgent'), (ns.annotate, 'reference'), (ns.cp, 'server') ] class ChannelBase: """ Base class for RSS Channels. A number of generic methods for accessing and setting channel data and metadata are exposed, for the benefit of subclasses. They may be used by applications as well, or the data structure of the subclass may be directly manipulated. """ def __init__(self): self.encoding = 'utf-8' def listItems(self): """List the items in a channel, with a list of identifiers.""" pass # override me def addItem(self, item, index=0): """Add an item to the channel. Expects an item dictionary.""" pass # override me def getItem(self, identifier): """Get the appropriate item dictionary for a given identifier.""" pass # override me def getMD(self, name): """ Get the [name] metadata as an item dictionary, where type is a tuple (typically, in the ns:rss10 namespace, with a localname of channel|image|textinput). MUST return an empty dictionary if the metadata isn't found. """ pass # override me def setMD(self, name, metadata): """ Set the [name] metadata, where name is a tuple (typically, it will be in the ns:rss10 namespace, and have a localname of channel|image|textinput), and metadata is an item dictionary. """ pass # override me def parse(self, url, timeout=30): """ Fetch a channel representation from a URL and populate the channel. """ dh = RSSParser(self) p = sax.sax2exts.make_parser() p.setContentHandler(dh) p.setFeature(sax.handler.feature_namespaces, 1) signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, self._timeout) signal.alarm(timeout) try: p.parse(str(url)) # URIs are ascii finally: signal.alarm(0) return dh def _timeout(self, **args): raise IOError, 'timeout' def parseFile(self, file): """Parse a file and populate the channel.""" dh = RSSParser(self) p = sax.sax2exts.make_parser() p.setContentHandler(dh) p.setFeature(sax.handler.feature_namespaces, 1) p.parseFile(file) return dh def __str__(self): return self.output(self.listItems()) def output(self, items): """Return the items referred to by a list of identifiers.""" assert type(items) is types.ListType, "items must be a list (%s)" % \ type(items) out = StringIO.StringIO() o = _XMLGenerator(out, self.encoding, 'replace') channelMD = self.getMD((ns.rss10, "channel")) imageMD = self.getMD((ns.rss10, "image")) textinputMD = self.getMD((ns.rss10, "textinput")) channelMD[(ns.admin, 'generatorAgent')] = versionURI # gather namespaces, map prefixes namespaces = {ns.rdf: 1} namespaces.update(dict( channelMD.keys() + imageMD.keys() + textinputMD.keys())) [namespaces.update(dict(i.keys())) for i in map(self.getItem, items)] for namespace in namespaces.keys(): o.startPrefixMapping(ns.getPrefix(namespace), namespace) # write the XML o.startDocument() o.startElementNS((ns.rdf, 'RDF'), None, {}) o.ignorableWhitespace('\n') o.startElementNS( (ns.rss10, 'channel'), None, {(ns.rdf, 'about'): channelMD[(ns.rss10, 'link')]}) o.ignorableWhitespace('\n') # /channel for name, data in channelMD.items(): if name in [(ns.rss10, 'items'), (ns.rss10, 'image'), (ns.rss10, 'textinput')]: continue o.ignorableWhitespace(' ') if name in rdfResources: o.startElementNS(name, None, {(ns.rdf, 'resource'): data}) else: if "<" in data: o.startElementNS(name, None, {(ns.rdf, "parseType"): "Literal"}) else: o.startElementNS(name, None, {}) o.characters(data) o.endElementNS(name, None) o.ignorableWhitespace('\n') # /channel/items o.ignorableWhitespace(' ') o.startElementNS((ns.rss10, 'items'), None, {}) o.startElementNS((ns.rdf, 'Seq'), None, {}) o.ignorableWhitespace('\n') for id in items: o.ignorableWhitespace(' ') o.startElementNS((ns.rdf, 'li'), None, {(ns.rdf, 'resource'): self.getItem(id).get((ns.rss10, 'link'), _make_hash(self.getItem(id)))}) o.endElementNS((ns.rdf, 'li'), None) o.ignorableWhitespace('\n') o.ignorableWhitespace(' ') o.endElementNS((ns.rdf, 'Seq'), None) o.endElementNS((ns.rss10, 'items'), None) o.ignorableWhitespace('\n') # /channel/image if imageMD.has_key((ns.rss10, 'url')): o.startElementNS((ns.rss10, 'image'), None, {(ns.rdf, 'about'): imageMD[(ns.rss10, 'url')]}) o.endElementNS((ns.rss10, 'image'), None) o.ignorableWhitespace('\n') # /channel/textinput if textinputMD.has_key((ns.rss10, 'link')): o.startElementNS((ns.rss10, 'textinput'), None, {(ns.rdf, 'about'): textinputMD[(ns.rss10, 'link')]}) o.endElementNS((ns.rss10, 'textinput'), None) o.ignorableWhitespace('\n') o.endElementNS((ns.rss10, 'channel'), None) o.ignorableWhitespace('\n') # /image if imageMD.has_key((ns.rss10, 'url')): o.startElementNS((ns.rss10, 'image'), None, {(ns.rdf, 'about'): imageMD[(ns.rss10, 'url')]}) for name, data in imageMD.items(): o.ignorableWhitespace(' ') if name in rdfResources: o.startElementNS(name, None, {(ns.rdf, 'resource'): data}) else: if "<" in data: o.startElementNS(name, None, {(ns.rdf, "parseType"): "Literal"}) else: o.startElementNS(name, None, {}) o.characters(data) o.endElementNS(name, None) o.ignorableWhitespace('\n') o.endElementNS((ns.rss10, 'image'), None) o.ignorableWhitespace('\n') # /textinput if textinputMD.has_key((ns.rss10, 'link')): o.startElementNS((ns.rss10, 'textinput'), None, {(ns.rdf, 'about'): textinputMD[(ns.rss10, 'link')]}) for name, data in textinputMD.items(): o.ignorableWhitespace(' ') if name in rdfResources: o.startElementNS(name, None, {(ns.rdf, 'resource'): data}) else: if "<" in data: o.startElementNS(name, None, {(ns.rdf, "parseType"): "Literal"}) else: o.startElementNS(name, None, {}) o.characters(data) o.endElementNS(name, None) o.ignorableWhitespace('\n') o.endElementNS((ns.rss10, 'textinput'), None) o.ignorableWhitespace('\n') # /item for id in items: item = self.getItem(id) o.startElementNS( (ns.rss10, 'item'), None, {(ns.rdf, 'about'): item.get((ns.rss10, 'link'), _make_hash(item))}) o.ignorableWhitespace('\n') for name, data in item.items(): o.ignorableWhitespace(' ') if name in rdfResources: o.startElementNS(name, None, {(ns.rdf, 'resource'): data}) else: if "<" in data: o.startElementNS(name, None, {(ns.rdf, "parseType"): "Literal"}) else: o.startElementNS(name, None, {}) o.characters(data) o.endElementNS(name, None) o.ignorableWhitespace('\n') o.endElementNS((ns.rss10, 'item'), None) o.ignorableWhitespace('\n') o.endElementNS((ns.rdf, 'RDF'), None) o.endDocument() out.seek(0) return out.read() class TrackingChannel(ChannelBase, UserDict.UserDict): """ RSS Channel modeled as a URI-per-entry dictionary. Item identifiers are (uri, index) tuples, where uri is the rdf:about or rss:link URI, and index indicates the position in a list of a number of times that URI has appeared in the channel. This allows "tracking" channels that track the state of a group of resources, such as stock tickers, file state changes, etc. For example: { (ns.rss10, "channel"): { (ns.rss10, "title"): "the channel", (ns.rss10, "description"): "whatever", }, (ns.rss10, "items"): ["http://example.com/foo", "htp://example.com/bar", ... ], "http://example.com/foo" [ { (ns.rss10, "title"): "item 1", (ns.rss10, "link"): "http://example.com/", (ns.rss10, "description"): "foo", }, { (ns.rss10, "title"): "item 1 revised", (ns.rss10, "link"): "http://example.com/", (ns.rss10, "description"): "foo revisited", }, ] "http://example.com/bar" [ ... ] } """ def __init__(self, data={}): ChannelBase.__init__(self) UserDict.UserDict.__init__(self, data) self.data[(ns.rss10, 'items')] = [] def listItems(self): return self[(ns.rss10, 'items')] def addItem(self, item, index=0): if index == -1: index = len(self.data[(ns.rss10, 'items')]) uri = item.get((ns.rss10, "link"), _make_hash(item)) # shoudn't happen if not self.data.has_key(uri): self.data[uri] = [item] else: self.data[uri].append(item) self.data[(ns.rss10, 'items')].insert(index, (uri, len(self.data[uri]))) def truncateToLength(self, length): items = self.listItems() data = self.data overage = len(items) - length while overage > 0: del data[items.pop()[0]] overage -= 1 def getItem(self, identifier): (uri, index) = identifier try: return self.data[uri][index-1] except (KeyError, IndexError): return {} def getMD(self, name): return self.data.get(name, {}) def setMD(self, name, metadata): self.data[name] = metadata class CollectionChannel(ChannelBase, UserDict.UserDict): """ RSS Channel modeled as an item-per-entry dictionary. Each Item is hashed to create a unique entry in the dictionary, no matter how many times a particular URI is in the channel. This allows "collection" channels, which are typically used for news updates, etc. For example: { (ns.rss10, "channel"): { (ns.rss10, "title"): "the channel", (ns.rss10, "description"): "whatever", }, (ns.rss10, "items"): ["ID1", "ID2", ... ], "ID1" { (ns.rss10, "title"): "item 1", (ns.rss10, "link"): "http://example.com/", (ns.rss10, "description"): "foo", }, "ID2" { ... } } Note that: - items are keyed by a hash-data URI; metadata is keyed by a (namespace, localname) tuple. - (ns.rss10, items) is a property; it cannot be manipulated without manipulating the corresponding (sub-)items (delete, add) - likewise, all item's are properties; adding, deleting, appending an item modifies (ns.rss10, items) correspondingly """ def __init__(self, data={}): ChannelBase.__init__(self) UserDict.UserDict.__init__(self, data) self.data[(ns.rss10, 'items')] = [] def listItems(self): return self.data[(ns.rss10, 'items')] def addItem(self, item, index=0): """append an item dictionary to the channel""" if index == -1: index = len(self.data[(ns.rss10, 'items')]) ID = _make_hash(item) self.data[ID] = item self.data[(ns.rss10, 'items')].insert(index, ID) def getItem(self, identifier): return self.data.get(identifier, {}) def getMD(self, name): return self.data.get(name, {}) def setMD(self, name, metadata): self.data[name] = metadata class _XMLGenerator(saxutils.XMLGenerator): """ Modified XMLGenerator. Allows modification of encoding error handling, and tries to encode problematic characters as Latin-1 to work around some implementations. """ def __init__(self, out=None, encoding='iso-8859-1', errors='strict'): saxutils.XMLGenerator.__init__(self, out=out, encoding=encoding) if out is None: out = sys.stdout self._out = codecs.lookup(encoding)[3](out, errors) def characters(self, content): try: self._out.write(sax.saxutils.escape(content)) except UnicodeError: # hack for broken content self._out.write(sax.saxutils.escape(unicode(content, 'Latin-1'))) class RSSParser(sax.handler.ContentHandler): """ Multi-format RSS/XML Parser. Parse XML into RSS Channel objects. May optionally be passed a Channel() instance to append to. Formats understood include: - RSS 0.9 - RSS 0.91 - RSS 0.92 - RSS 1.0 (EXCEPT "rich content" modules) "Core" RSS elements are normalized to the RSS1.0 namespace. """ def __init__(self, channel, encoding='utf-8'): sax.handler.ContentHandler.__init__(self) self.channel = channel self.encoding = encoding self._context = [] self._tmp_item = {} self._tmp_md = { (ns.rss10, "channel"): {}, (ns.rss10, "image"): {}, (ns.rss10, "textinput"): {}, } self._tmp_buf = '' self.version = None def startElementNS(self, name, qname, attrs): if name[1] is 'rss': # sniff version if name[0] is None: self.version = attrs.get('version', None) else: self.version = name[0] # normalize the rss namespace if name[0] in rssNamespaces and name[1] in rssElements: name = (ns.rss10, name[1]) elif name[0] is None: name = (ns.rss091, name[1]) self._context.append(name) if name == (ns.rss10, 'item'): self._tmp_item = {} self._tmp_buf = '' elif len(self._context) > 1 and \ self._context[-2] == (ns.rss10, 'item') and \ name in rdfResources: self._tmp_item[name] = attrs[(ns.rdf, 'resource')] def endElementNS(self, name, qname): # normalize the rss namespace if name[0] in rssNamespaces and name[1] in rssElements: name = (ns.rss10, name[1]) elif name[0] is None: name = (ns.rss091, name[1]) if (ns.rss10, 'item') in self._context: if self._context[-1] == (ns.rss10, 'item'): # end of an item self.channel.addItem(self._tmp_item, len(self.channel)) self._tmp_item = {} elif self._context[-2] == (ns.rss10, 'item'): # an item's child if name not in rdfResources: self._tmp_item[name] = self._tmp_buf.strip() else: # an item's grandchild pass ### elif len(self._context) > 2 and self._context[-2] in rssSections: # metadata self._tmp_md[self._context[-2]][name] = self._tmp_buf.strip() self._tmp_buf = '' self._context.pop() def endDocument(self): for name, metadata in self._tmp_md.items(): self.channel.setMD(name, metadata) def characters(self, content): self._tmp_buf = self._tmp_buf + content.encode(self.encoding) def _make_hash(data): return "hash-data:SHA:" + sha.new(pickle.dumps(data)).hexdigest()[:20] if __name__ == "__main__": # a simple test c = TrackingChannel() c.parse(sys.argv[1]) print c