pyPodcastParser is a podcast parser. It should parse any RSS file, but it specializes in parsing podcast rss feeds. pyPodcastParser is agnostic about the method you use to get a podcast RSS feed. Most user will be comfortable with the Requests library.

pip install pyPodcastParser

from pyPodcastParser.Podcast import Podcast
import requests

response = requests.get('https://some_rss_feed')
podcast = Podcast(response.content)

Notes:

• All attributes with empty or nonexistent element will have a value of None.
• Attributes are generally strings or lists of strings, because we want to record the literal value of elements.
• The cloud element aka RSS Cloud is not supported as it has been superseded by the superior PubSubHubbub protocal

• categories (list) A list for strings representing the feed categories
• copyright (string): The feed's copyright
• creative_commons (string): The feed's creative commons license
• items (list): A list of Item objects
• description (string): The feed's description
• generator (string): The feed's generator
• image_title (string): Feed image title
• image_url (string): Feed image url
• image_link (string): Feed image link to homepage
• image_width (string): Feed image width
• image_height (Sample H4string): Feed image height
• itunes_author_name (string): The podcast's author name for iTunes
• itunes_block (boolean): Does the podcast block itunes
• itunes_categories (list): List of strings of itunes categories
• itunes_complete (string): Is this podcast done and complete
• itunes_explicit (string): Is this item explicit. Should only be "yes" and "clean."
• itune_image (string): URL to itunes image
• itunes_keywords (list): List of strings of itunes keywords
• itunes_new_feed_url (string): The new url of this podcast
• language (string): Language of feed
• last_build_date (string): Last build date of this feed
• link (string): URL to homepage
• managing_editor (string): managing editor of feed
• published_date (string): Date feed was published
• pubsubhubbub (string): The URL of the pubsubhubbub service for this feed
• owner_name (string): Name of feed owner
• owner_email (string): Email of feed owner
• subtitle (string): The feed subtitle
• title (string): The feed title
• ttl (string): The time to live or number of minutes to cache feed
• web_master (string): The feed's webmaster
• date_time (datetime): When published

• author (string): The author of the item
• comments (string): URL of comments
• creative_commons (string): creative commons license for this item
• description (string): Description of the item.
• enclosure_url (string): URL of enclosure
• enclosure_type (string): File MIME type
• enclosure_length (integer): File size in bytes
• guid (string): globally unique identifier
• itunes_author_name (string): Author name given to iTunes
• itunes_block (boolean): It this Item blocked from itunes
• itunes_closed_captioned: (string): It is this item have closed captions
• itunes_duration (string): Duration of enclosure
• itunes_explicit (string): Is this item explicit. Should only be "yes" and "clean."
• itune_image (string): URL of item cover art
• itunes_order (string): Override published_date order
• itunes_subtitle (string): The item subtitle
• itunes_summary (string): The summary of the item
• link (string): The URL of item.
• published_date (string): Date item was published
• title (string): The title of item.
• date_time (datetime): When published

https://github.com/jrigden/pyPodcastParser/issues/new

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Twitter:

Version 2.0.0

• Removed most time attributes and replaced then them with more concise and versatile datetime object

Version 1.1.1

• Fixed missed named attribute in items

Version 1.1.0

• Added Validation for RSS and podcasts
• Added several useful time attributes

https://github.com/jrigden/pyPodcastParser

http://pypodcastparser.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

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