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<h1>Uncommon Atom Elements<a class="headerlink" href="#uncommon-atom-elements" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>These elements are less common, but are useful for niche applications and may
be present in any Atom feed.</p>
<p>Besides an author, each Atom feed or entry can have an arbitrary number of
contributors. <strong class="program">Universal Feed Parser</strong> makes these available as a
list.</p>
<div class="section" id="accessing-contributors">
<h2>Accessing contributors<a class="headerlink" href="#accessing-contributors" 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/atom10.xml'</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">e</span> <span class="o">=</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="gp">>>> </span><span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">e</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">contributors</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">2</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">e</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">contributors</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="go">{'name': u'Joe',</span>
<span class="go">'href': u'http://example.org/joe/',</span>
<span class="go">'email': u'joe@example.org'}</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">e</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">contributors</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="go">{'name': u'Sam',</span>
<span class="go">'href': u'http://example.org/sam/',</span>
<span class="go">'email': u'sam@example.org'}</span>
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<p>Besides an alternate link, each Atom feed or entry can have an arbitrary number
of other links. Each link is distinguished by its type attribute, which is a
MIME-style content type, and its rel attribute.</p>
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<div class="section" id="accessing-multiple-links">
<h2>Accessing multiple links<a class="headerlink" href="#accessing-multiple-links" 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/atom10.xml'</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">e</span> <span class="o">=</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="gp">>>> </span><span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">e</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">links</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">4</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">e</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">links</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="go">{'rel': u'alternate',</span>
<span class="go">'type': u'text/html',</span>
<span class="go">'href': u'http://example.org/entry/3'}</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">e</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">links</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="go">{'rel': u'related',</span>
<span class="go">'type': u'text/html',</span>
<span class="go">'href': u'http://search.example.com/'}</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">e</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">links</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="go">{'rel': u'via',</span>
<span class="go">'type': u'text/html',</span>
<span class="go">'href': u'http://toby.example.com/examples/atom10'}</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">e</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">links</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="go">{'rel': u'enclosure',</span>
<span class="go">'type': u'video/mpeg4',</span>
<span class="go">'href': u'http://www.example.com/movie.mp4',</span>
<span class="go">'length': u'42301'}</span>
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<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">For more examples of accessing Atom elements, see the annotated examples
<a class="reference internal" href="annotated-atom10.html#annotated-atom10"><em>Atom 1.0</em></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="annotated-atom03.html#annotated-atom03"><em>Atom 0.3</em></a>.</p>
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