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i am trying to write a script for Xbox media center that will pull
information from the bbc news website and display the headlines , how do i
pull this info into a list???

bob wrote:

> i am trying to write a script for Xbox media center that will pull
> information from the bbc news website and display the headlines , how
> do i pull this info into a list???
>
>

Google for "Python RSS reader" and read some of the results.

http://effbot.org/zone/effnews.htm probably answers many of your questions,
especially since he uses the BBC news headlines as an example.

Bob,

Have a look at feedparser:

http://www.feedparser.org/
http://diveintomark.org/projects/feed_parser/

For bbc news feeds, I use the following url:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/syndication/fee...age/rss091.xml

bob wrote:

> i am trying to write a script for Xbox media center that will pull
> information from the bbc news website and display the headlines , how do i
> pull this info into a list???

On 10 Jan 2005 16:06:33 GMT, Duncan Booth <> wrote:
> bob wrote:
>
>> i am trying to write a script for Xbox media center that will pull
>> information from the bbc news website and display the headlines , how
>> do i pull this info into a list???
>
> Google for "Python RSS reader" and read some of the results.

And for the general (and fundamentally broken) approach, google for "web
scraping".

/Jorgen

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