Oni-RssAsText.py

#!/usr/bin/python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# Copyright (C) 2018
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# Author : Martin Garbe <monomartin@on-i.de>

from urllib.request import urlopen
from xml.dom.minidom import parse
from html2text.html2text import html2text
import sys

ONI_FEED_URL = "https://wiki.opennet-initiative.de/wiki/Spezial:BlogFeed/format%3Drss"
ONI_NEW_RSS_FILEPATH = "oni-blog-rss4twitter.xml"

def main():
    #download file
    xml = parse(urlopen(ONI_FEED_URL))

    #iterate through items
    xml_data = xml.getElementsByTagName("item")
    for node in xml_data:
        entry = {}
        #get html of description element
        html = node.getElementsByTagName("description")[0].firstChild.data
        text = html2text(html)
        #set new text
        node.getElementsByTagName("description")[0].firstChild.data = text

    #save file
    fd = open(ONI_NEW_RSS_FILEPATH, "w")
    fd.write(xml.toprettyxml())
    fd.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()