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Python RSS locator

16th August 2002

Mark Pilgrim has written an ultra-liberal RSS locator (in Python, naturally). I guess he had to scratch an itch. The amount of work it puts in to locating an RSS feed for a site is astonishing, especially when you consider how short the actual code is.

Posted 16th August 2002 at 2:19 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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