#!/usr/bin/env python3 from datetime import datetime def _format_date(dt): """convert a datetime into an RFC 822 formatted date Input date must be in GMT. Stolen from PyRSS2Gen. """ # Looks like: # Sat, 07 Sep 2002 00:00:01 GMT # Can't use strftime because that's locale dependent # # Isn't there a standard way to do this for Python? The # rfc822 and email.Utils modules assume a timestamp. The # following is based on the rfc822 module. return "%s, %02d %s %04d %02d:%02d:%02d GMT" % ( ["Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat", "Sun"][dt.weekday()], dt.day, ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"][dt.month-1], dt.year, dt.hour, dt.minute, dt.second) def buildRSS(feed_data): """ feed_data = { title, url, description, content = [{ title, url, content, date, [enclosures], guid }] } """ feed = f""" {feed_data['title']} {feed_data['url']} {feed_data['description']} {_format_date(datetime.now())}""" for item in feed_data["content"]: feed += " " feed += f" <![CDATA[{item.get('title', 'N/A')}]]>" feed += f" {item.get('url', 'N/A')}" feed += f" " if "date" in item: if type(item["date"]) is str: feed += f" {item['date']}" else: feed += f" {_format_date(item['date'])}" for enclosure in item.get("enclosures", []): feed += f" " if "guid" in item: feed += f" {item['guid']}" feed += " " feed += " " feed += "" return feed