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Python 3 Web Scraping Script to Scrape & Parse Live Blog RSS Feed & Export to XML & CSV File
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Jun 3, 2025
Get the full source code of application here: https://codingshiksha.com/python/python-3-web-scraping-script-to-scrape-parse-live-blog-rss-feed-export-to-xml-csv-file/
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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So in this video I will show you how to
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uh parse RSS block feed of any website
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that provides a RSS
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feed I will show you how to scrape that
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RSS feed and save it inside uh XML and
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CSV formats So this is actually this
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Python script that I have written So I'm
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just scraping this uh RSS feed right
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here by the URL You can
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see every blog website provides it RSS
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feed So it's in XML format right here if
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you see it's accessible It's publicly
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accessible So whenever a blog post a
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popular website they do offers RSS blog
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feed So now as soon as I execute this
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Python script you will see on the left
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hand side it will download this RSS feed
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and then it will export this to CSV
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format as well So let me execute this
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and just check out on the left hand side
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you will see
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So just check on the left hand side It
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created two files here Uh first of all
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it downloaded the RSS feed of the block
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in XML format and then it converted this
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XML to a
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CSV So first of all it fetched this RSS
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feed in this XML format and then it
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converted this XML to CSV
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So this single script is doing all this
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So it is fetching first of all the RSS
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feed in the XML and then it is
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converting this to
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CSV So I have given all this Python
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script in the description of this video
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So now let me show you step by step how
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I did this
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So for this we aren't using any third
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party module So just create a simple app
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py file and after that just include the
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basic modules the CSV module then you
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need to import the request module to
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make the request and then you just need
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to import the XML
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dot this module here like this and after
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that here you just need to
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specify you just need to make some
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custom functions right is so first of
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all load RSS So this will fetch the RSS
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feed So let me just make this
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function So the very first thing we do
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inside this function we specify the
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URL in the publicly accessible RSS feed
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URL You just need to paste here
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So you can take any website URL which
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provides you with the RSS blog feed
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right here So just paste that After that
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you just need to make the simple request
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to this URL by the request module So
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request dot get and then pass it the
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actual
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URL As soon as you make the request here
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we just need to download that XML file
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the RSS blog XML file here So for that
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we can simply use the open function and
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just give it a file name
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result.xml save this file in read binary
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mode
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uh like this
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F.Right to write the content which is
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coming So response
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dot content So in this way you can
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actually download the XML file this
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programmatically So if you run this
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script now let me delete
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everything So if I execute the script
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here you will see on the left hand side
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uh
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The result.xml file will be
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created So after doing this you need to
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pass this XML which is coming So we will
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be having the second function here
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So here you just need to pass the file
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name to
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this So this will actually
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pass this
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XML which is there in the block feed
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It will actually take the XML file as an
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argument and then it will analyze the
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overall XML file It will extract the
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relevant information and create a new
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file which will be
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result.xml
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So if I now execute this
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And lastly we need to convert this RSS
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blog feed to a CSV file So we are making
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the third function which is save to CSV
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And here we are simply passing the
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content And this time we are creating a
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new file which is the CSV file
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So as you can see first of all it
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created this XML file then it created
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this CSV file
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So so you can take any RSS blog feed
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example and just plug this inside the
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script and the script will automatically
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download the XML file and then it will
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convert that into
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CSV So I've given this script in the
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description of this video
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So so thank you very much for watching
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