Simon Willison’s Weblog

Python RSS locator

16th August 2002

Mark Pilgrim has written an ultra-liberal RSS locator (in Python, naturally). I guess he had to scratch an itch. The amount of work it puts in to locating an RSS feed for a site is astonishing, especially when you consider how short the actual code is.

Posted 16th August 2002 at 2:19 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

More recent articles

Reverse engineering some updates to Claude - 31st July 2025
Trying out Qwen3 Coder Flash using LM Studio and Open WebUI and LLM - 31st July 2025
My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now, using GLM-4.5 Air and MLX - 29th July 2025

This is Python RSS locator by Simon Willison, posted on 16th August 2002.

mark-pilgrim 85 python 1169 rss 40

Next: New memes make Baby Jesus cry

Previous: Zeldman played by a stand up comic

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe

Previously hosted at http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2002/08/16/pythonRssLocator