Read one or more RSS feeds and add the entry links to Pinboard.

feedstopinboard.py

#! /usr/bin/python

import feedparser
import yaml
import pinboard
from time import mktime
import os

class RssToPinboard(object):
    def __init__(self, settings):
	here = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
        self.settings_file = os.path.join(here, settings)
        with open(self.settings_file, 'r') as f:
            settings = yaml.load(f)
        self.settings = settings
        self.pb = pinboard.Pinboard(settings['pinboard_token'])
    
    def __enter__(self):
        return self
        
    def __exit__(self, e_type, e_val, tb):
        with open(self.settings_file, 'w') as f:
            yaml.dump(self.settings, f, default_flow_style=False)
    
    def run(self):
        for f in self.settings['feeds']:
            feed = feedparser.parse(f['url'])
            toread = f.get('toread', False)
            entries = feed['entries']
            if f.get('last'):
                entries = [e for e in entries if mktime(e['published_parsed']) > f.get('last')]
            
            #Save the date of the most recent entry.
            if entries:
                f['last'] = mktime(max([e['published_parsed'] for e in entries]))            
                for entry in entries:
                    try:
                        self.pb.posts.add(url=entry['link'], description=entry['title'], toread=toread)
                    except:
                        pass
                

with RssToPinboard('.feedstopinboard.settings.yml') as rtp:
    rtp.run()

feedstopinboard.settings.example.yml

feeds:
- toread: true
  url: https://www.instapaper.com/rss/13007/abcdefghijklmnop
- toread: true
  url: http://someotherfeed.com/?rss=saved
pinboard_token: someone:1234567890abcdef