Python RSS Reader

• This is a simple RSS reader written in Python
• It monitors RSS feeds from:
  • SGX Company Announcements
  • Straits Times Singapore section
• Source code available on my Github page here
• This light weight reader floats on top of any open application, and can be dragged anywhere on the screen so as not to obscure anything important
• The reader checks for updates every 60 seconds
• On launch, it pulls the 10 latest posts from each news source
• Each source gets polled once a minute thereafter to check for new posts
• At all times, a list of the 10 most recent entries (per news source) is maintanied and a random entry from this list is displayed for 8 seconds
• Libraries used include:
  • Standard Python Libraries - tkinter, sys and random.
  • Third Party Libraries - feedparser (to parse RSS data)

   

Issues, Improvements and Learning Points:

• Add additional relevant RSS feeds
• Consider a multi-line RSS output
• Currently no notification or alert when a new RSS item is added