I'm trying to make an RSS scraper to pull articles from RSS feeds and export them to text files, to be used either in my BBS bulletins or message areas
I found a web page that supposedly does exactly this, however using the code and testing I get the Folliwing error:
python scraping.py
File "scraping.py", line 5
def
hackernews_rss('
https://news.ycombinator.com/rss'):
^
SyntaxError: invalid
syntax
The code is:
# scraping function
def hackernews_rss('
https://news.ycombinator.com/rss'):
try:
r = requests.get()
return print('The scraping job succeeded: ', r.status_code)
except Exception as e:
print('The scraping job failed. See exception: ')
print(e)print('Starting scraping')
hackernews_rss()
print('Finished scraping')
Any idea what I flubbed?
Thanks
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