# # quick-and-dirty(tm) script to gather IETF Internet-Draft announce # from a mbox and to generate a nice RSS feed of the recent announce. # # for more information : http://www.foo.be/ietf/id/ import mailbox import time import re import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET date_rfc2822 = "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S" tmsg = [] def date_as_rfc(value): return time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S +0000", time.localtime(value)) def build_rss(myitem,maxitem): RSSroot = ET.Element( 'rss', {'version':'2.0'} ) RSSchannel = ET.SubElement( RSSroot, 'channel' ) ET.SubElement( RSSchannel, 'title' ).text = 'Latest Internet-Draft (IDs) Published - IETF - custom RSS feed' ET.SubElement( RSSchannel, 'link' ).text = 'http://www.foo.be/ietf/id/' ET.SubElement( RSSchannel, 'description' ).text = 'Latest Internet-Draft (IDs) Published - IETF - custom RSS feed' ET.SubElement( RSSchannel, 'generator' ).text = 'rssany extended for parsing IETF IDs - http://www.foo.be/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/RssAny' # ET.SubElement( RSSchannel, 'pubDate' ).text = date_as_rfc(time.time()) ET.SubElement( RSSchannel, 'pubDate' ).text = date_as_rfc(time.time()-10000) for bloodyitem in myitem[0:maxitem]: RSSitem = ET.SubElement ( RSSchannel, 'item' ) ET.SubElement( RSSitem, 'title' ).text = bloodyitem[1] ET.SubElement( RSSitem, 'pubDate' ).text = date_as_rfc(bloodyitem[0]) ET.SubElement( RSSitem, 'description').text = '
'+bloodyitem[2]+'' ET.SubElement( RSSitem, 'guid').text = "http://tools.ietf.org/html/"+bloodyitem[3] ET.SubElement( RSSitem, 'link').text = "http://tools.ietf.org/html/"+bloodyitem[3] RSSfeed = ET.ElementTree(RSSroot) feed = ET.tostring(RSSroot) return feed for message in mailbox.mbox('/var/spool/mail/ietf'): subject = message['subject'] date = message['date'] date_epoch = int(time.mktime(time.strptime(date[0:-12], date_rfc2822))) message_id = message['Message-Id'] body = message.get_payload()[0].get_payload() id = subject.split(":")[1].split(".")[0] tmsg.append([date_epoch,subject,body,id]) tmsg.sort() tmsg.reverse() print build_rss(tmsg,100)