[ale] Bash/Python Question

[Omar Chanouha]

Thanks to everyone!

I appreciate all the suggestions, and I will work this problem out
over spring break.

Thanks,

-O

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 02:47, Omar Chanouha <ofosho at gatech.edu> wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>>   I am creating an information gatherer for a school project.
>
> There are 2 ways to do this.   Figure it out by yourself, or figure it
> out with assistance from others.  Those that learn how to ask for
> assistance and help, will go further in life than those that beat
> their heads against the wall all day.   Since you asked for help....
> Have a look at the attached, I wrote it last year'ish.  It fetches rss
> feed(s) and downloads items that contain videos.  The one feed
> currently in it is a public shared google reader feed that contains
> various online videos.  I use this script to periodically download the
> videos, queue them, and re-encode them to work on my blackberry.   The
> code should be sort of self-explanatory, essentially there are 2
> queues (DownloadQueue and EncodeQueue) that are subclasess of
> WorkQueue.  Each item added to a Queue is assigned a TaskRunner
> (DownloadTask and EncodeTask).   The main loop just looks for finished
> tasks, pops them, and moves something from the Queue queued queue into
> the Queue active queue.
>
> It's not perfect, it still needs some tweaks.. but it works for what i
> need it to do.
>
> You will need Python's feedparser lib.   Enjoy
>
> -Jim P.
>
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