Parse Craigslist RSS Feed

parseCraigslistRssFeed.py

from lxml import etree

def parseCraigslistRssFeed(url):
  listings = []
  xml = etree.parse(url)
  channel = xml.getroot().find('{*}channel')
  items = xml.getroot().findall('{*}item')
  for item in items:
    title = item.find('{*}title').text
    desc = item.find('{*}description').text
    date = item.find('{*}date').text
    link = item.find('{*}link').text
    enclosure = item.find('{*}enclosure')
    imgsrc = None
    if enclosure is not None:
      imgsrc = item.find('{*}enclosure').attrib.get('resource')
    listings.append({
      'title': title,
      'desc': desc,
      'date': date,
      'link': link,
      'imgsrc': imgsrc
    })
  return listings

print(parseCraigslistRssFeed('''http://miami.craigslist.org/search/sga?format=rss&is_paid=all&query=surfboard&search_distance_type=mi'''))