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Small Python script to generate OPML from Opera's RSS feed list.

I really like Opera 8 quite a lot. It has nice integrated RSS + E-mail + NNTP reader. But one thing I found missing was ability to export my feed list. Since most RSS readers read OPML format these days, here is a Python snippet to help you export Opera feeds settings. I have tested this on my machine and my feeds. Your mileage may vary - feel free to modify this.

import ConfigParser
import time

## things you need to change
#first, location of your Opera settings. This is my setting on Windows
OperaSettings = u'C:\\Documents and Settings\\vsbabu\\Application Data\\Opera\\Opera\\Mail\\incoming1.txt'
## end things you need to change

config = ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser()
fp = open(OperaSettings)

#skip the sections to [Feed x]
#this is necessary since Opera’s format is similar to .ini
#file, but not exactly! Opera starts without default section
#headers, causing MissingSectionHeaderError exception.
line=fp.readline()
while (line != ""):
    if (line.strip() == "[Feeds]"):
        #this top section has one line. Skip that too
        line = fp.readline()
        break
    line=fp.readline()

config.readfp(fp)

#feeds are sectioned like Feed 1, Feed 2 etc.
#there may be other sections
feeds = []
exported_count = error_count = 0
for section in config.sections():
    # we just need to look at options
    if not config.has_option(section, "Subscribed"):
        continue
    try:
        feeds.append( (config.get(section,"Name"), config.get(section,"<acronym title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</acronym>")) )
        exported_count += 1
    except:
        #ignore errors silently -- add error reporting code here
        #if you prefer
        error_count += 1

fp.close()

time_now = time.strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT', time.gmtime())
opml_text = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<opml version="1.0">
<head>
    <title>Feeds Exported from Opera</title>
    
</head>
<body>
    <outline text="Exported Feeds">
""" % (exported_count, exported_count+error_count)

for rss in feeds:
    opml_text += """\n\t\t<outline  type="rss" text="%s" title="%s" xmlUrl="%s"/>""" % (rss[0], rss[0], rss[1])
opml_text += """\n\t</outline>\n</body>\n</opml>\n"""

print opml_text

Note: Much thanks to this Ruby script that converts OPML to Opera format for ideas about where Opera stores its files.

Posted: July 03, 2005 09:18 PM
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