Python feedparser not returning any entries

Question

I've been cycling through RSS feeds over the past week using feedparser. When using it today, my entire program fails to function and I've noticed that the error seems to be at the start of the program, when I'm getting the length of the feed to cycle through.

So, for instance, if I was to cycle through the BBC feed, the program goes:

import feedparser

bbc = feedparser.parse('http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml?edition=uk')

When running this, I get absolutely no output from the code that follows. Not even an error message. Before, I'd get all the headlines on the RSS feed. This has just suddenly stopped working today. It worked for the previous week. I've tried other RSS feeds and they turn up blank too.

Any ideas as to what could be wrong?

Answer 1

You can use this code for sane error messages:

import feedparser

bbc = feedparser.parse('http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml?edition=uk')
if bbc.status == 200:
    numberOfHeadlines = len(bbc['entries'])

    for i in range(0,numberOfHeadlines):
        print(bbc['entries'][i]['title'])
else:
    print("Some connection error", bbc.status)