RSS Feed Parser (Python)

A Python script that reads RSS feeds from the web and shows the latest news in a clean, readable format. You can view the feed in the console or get it as JSON, with options to limit the number of news items.

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Features

• Parse channel: title, link, description, language, lastBuildDate, managingEditor, category.
• Parse items: title, link, description, author, pubDate, category.
• Console output with item separators.
• JSON output (--json).
• Limit items (--limit N).

Example Console Output

Feed: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
Link: https://news.yahoo.com/rss
Description: Yahoo news description

Title: Some Headline
Published: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:34:56 +0000
Link: https://news.yahoo.com/some-news

Some description text here.
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Title: Another Headline
Published: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 10:21:43 +0000
Link: https://news.yahoo.com/another-news

Another description here.

Example JSON output

{
  "title": "Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines",
  "link": "https://news.yahoo.com/rss",
  "description": "Yahoo news description",
  "items": [
    {
      "title": "Some Headline",
      "pubDate": "Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:34:56 +0000",
      "link": "https://news.yahoo.com/some-news",
      "description": "Some description text here."
    }
  ]
}