RSSMerger

Tuesday, May 25th, 2004

A little while ago my coworker was visiting this site, and I quite liked the idea. I’ve always felt that there’s too much nonsense news around on the web, and scanning all news sources has become an increasingly difficult and tedious task. Fortunatelly there’s RSS, which allows you to view the headlines of all interesting newssources.

themirror.nl takes RSS to the next step by merging a couple of main news headlines into a single list to view. I liked the idea, but unfortunatelly the sources weren’t available. So I decided to write my own RSS feed merger in python.

The RSSmerger reads a number of RSS feeds from some source (internet, local disk, etc) and then merges all items in these sources into a new RSS feed. The order of appearance of items in their original source feeds are maintained in the merged RSS feed. This way you can simply call rssmerger.py once an hour and it will add all new headlines from various news sources to the top of the merged feed.

You can find RSSmerger here. It’s released under the GPL license.