Feed Parser

gistfile1.py

import urllib2
import feedparser
import time
import sys

url = 'http://www.zurnal24.si/index.php?ctl=show_rss'
opener = urllib2.build_opener()
opener.addheaders = [('User-Agent', 'Mozilla/5.0')]

# Try to connect a few times, waiting longer after each consecutive failure
MAX_ATTEMPTS = 8
for attempt in range(MAX_ATTEMPTS):
  try:
    request = opener.open(url)
    break
  except urllib2.URLError, e:
    sleep_secs = attempt ** 2
    print >> sys.stderr, 'ERROR: %s.nRetrying in %s seconds...' % (e, sleep_secs)            
    time.sleep(sleep_secs)

response = request.read()
feed = feedparser.parse(response)
title = feed['channel']['title']
print title