Python

In order to create my Blogroll automatically, I needed to convert the OPML export from Miniflux to markdown. While RSS-OPML-to-Markdown was a good start, I didn’t like the table output and the fact I couldn’t access htmlUrl data attributes. This python script outputs a tag-separated list of feeds, linked with that htmlUrl rather than the rss feed itself. Passing tags to –ignore will omit them from the output. pip3 install opml argparse python ./opml_to_markdown.py --opmlFile ~/Downloads/feeds\(2\).opml --markdownFile blogroll.md --ignore All Private Newsletter # # opml_to_markdown.py # import opml import argparse def opml_to_markdown(opml_file, ignore_tags): outline = opml.parse(opml_file) markdown = "" for tag in outline: if tag.text in ignore_tags: continue markdown += "\n## {}\n\n".format(tag.text) for feed in tag: markdown += "* [{}]({})\n".format(feed.title, feed.htmlUrl) return markdown if __name__ == "__main__": parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument('--opmlFile', required=True) parser.add_argument('--markdownFile', nargs='?') parser.add_argument('--ignore', nargs='+') args = parser.parse_args() markdown = opml_to_markdown(args.opmlFile, args.ignore) if args.markdownFile: with open(args.markdownFile, 'wt', encoding="utf-8") as f: f.write(markdown) f.write("\n") else: print(markdown)