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<h1>Common <abbr title="Rich Site Summary">RSS</abbr> Elements<a class="headerlink" href="#common-rss-elements" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>The most commonly used elements in <abbr title="Rich Site Summary">RSS</abbr> feeds
(regardless of version) are title, link, description, publication date, and entry
ID. The publication date comes from the pubDate element, and the entry ID comes
from the guid element.</p>
<p>This sample <abbr title="Rich Site Summary">RSS</abbr> feed is at
<a class="reference external" href="http://feedparser.org/docs/examples/rss20.xml">http://feedparser.org/docs/examples/rss20.xml</a>.</p>
<div class="highlight-xml"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="cp"><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?></span>
<span class="nt"><rss</span> <span class="na">version=</span><span class="s">"2.0"</span><span class="nt">></span>
<span class="nt"><channel></span>
<span class="nt"><title></span>Sample Feed<span class="nt"></title></span>
<span class="nt"><description></span>For documentation <span class="ni">&lt;</span>em<span class="ni">&gt;</span>only<span class="ni">&lt;</span>/em<span class="ni">&gt;</span><span class="nt"></description></span>
<span class="nt"><link></span>http://example.org/<span class="nt"></link></span>
<span class="nt"><pubDate></span>Sat, 07 Sep 2002 00:00:01 GMT<span class="nt"></pubDate></span>
<span class="c"><!-- other elements omitted from this example --></span>
<span class="nt"><item></span>
<span class="nt"><title></span>First entry title<span class="nt"></title></span>
<span class="nt"><link></span>http://example.org/entry/3<span class="nt"></link></span>
<span class="nt"><description></span>Watch out for <span class="ni">&lt;</span>span style="background-image:
url(javascript:window.location='http://example.org/')"<span class="ni">&gt;</span>nasty
tricks<span class="ni">&lt;</span>/span<span class="ni">&gt;</span><span class="nt"></description></span>
<span class="nt"><pubDate></span>Thu, 05 Sep 2002 00:00:01 GMT<span class="nt"></pubDate></span>
<span class="nt"><guid></span>http://example.org/entry/3<span class="nt"></guid></span>
<span class="c"><!-- other elements omitted from this example --></span>
<span class="nt"></item></span>
<span class="nt"></channel></span>
<span class="nt"></rss></span>
</pre></div>
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<p>The channel elements are available in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">d.feed</span></tt>.</p>
<div class="section" id="accessing-common-channel-elements">
<h2>Accessing Common Channel Elements<a class="headerlink" href="#accessing-common-channel-elements" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">feedparser</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">d</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">feedparser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">parse</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">'http://feedparser.org/docs/examples/rss20.xml'</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">feed</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">title</span>
<span class="go">u'Sample Feed'</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">feed</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">link</span>
<span class="go">u'http://example.org/'</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">feed</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">description</span>
<span class="go">u'For documentation <em>only</em>'</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">feed</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">published</span>
<span class="go">u'Sat, 07 Sep 2002 00:00:01 GMT'</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">feed</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">published_parsed</span>
<span class="go">(2002, 9, 7, 0, 0, 1, 5, 250, 0)</span>
</pre></div>
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<p>The items are available in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">d.entries</span></tt>, which is a list. You access items in the list in the same order in which they appear in the original feed, so the first item is available in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">d.entries[0]</span></tt>.</p>
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<div class="section" id="accessing-common-item-elements">
<h2>Accessing Common Item Elements<a class="headerlink" href="#accessing-common-item-elements" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">feedparser</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">d</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">feedparser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">parse</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">'http://feedparser.org/docs/examples/rss20.xml'</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">entries</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">title</span>
<span class="go">u'First item title'</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">entries</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">link</span>
<span class="go">u'http://example.org/item/1'</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">entries</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">description</span>
<span class="go">u'Watch out for <span>nasty tricks</span>'</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">entries</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">published</span>
<span class="go">u'Thu, 05 Sep 2002 00:00:01 GMT'</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">entries</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">published_parsed</span>
<span class="go">(2002, 9, 5, 0, 0, 1, 3, 248, 0)</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">entries</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">id</span>
<span class="go">u'http://example.org/guid/1'</span>
</pre></div>
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<p class="first admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p class="last">You can also access data from <abbr title="Rich Site Summary">RSS</abbr> feeds using Atom terminology. See <a class="reference internal" href="content-normalization.html#advanced-normalization"><em>Content Normalization</em></a> for details.</p>
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