I'm trying to retrieve some news from the BBC rss feed and save certain parts locally in xml (althought this code only prints it). I seem to be able to retrieve everything I want except for the pubDate. I get the error
"File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/feedparser.py", line 416, in __getattr__raise AttributeError, "object has no attribute '%s'" % keyAttributeError: object has no attribute 'pubDate'"I'm not sure why as everything else I've wanted to retrieve hasn't caused any problems. Here is the code:
import feedparserimport xml.etree.cElementTree as ETfrom xml.dom import minidomBBCHome = feedparser.parse ('http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml')def prettify(elem): rough_string = ET.tostring(elem, 'utf-8') reparsed = minidom.parseString(rough_string) return reparsed.toprettyxml(indent="")root = ET.Element('root')for story in BBCHome.entries: item = ET.SubElement(root,'item') title = ET.SubElement(item,'title') title.text = story.title # why doesn't pubDate work? pubDate = ET.SubElement (item,'pubDate') pubDate.text = story.pubDate description = ET.SubElement(item,'description') description.text = story.description link = ET.SubElement(item,'link') link.text = story.link print prettify(root)Reading this page : https://pythonhosted.org/feedparser/namespace-handling.htmlI think it might have something to do with namespaces but tbh I don't really understand.I've looked at the raw feed and it seems like just another sub element of item similar to description or title.
If I could find out how to fix this and why it wasn't working it would be greatly appreciated.Thanks.
