RSS 2 DB engine

This is just the beginning of a project i’ve been wanting to kick start for some time now. If you’ve read this blog before you’ve heard me mention a .net rss engine I built for my own web based feed reader. This is the open source version of that engine written in python with a mysql backend.

It’s still pretty much a toy project and my first in python, but it is being used on http://punchingsoup.com and run every hour.

rss2db.zip

The setup is pretty simple.
1. Run rss2db.sql on your mysql server.
2. Modify the connection information to that mysql server in rss2db.py.
3. Run rss2db.py.

From here i’ll start building out a php based web frontend for the database that mimics what i’ve built in .net for myself.

Should be fun.