Subj : Re: Error message
To   : Charles Pierson
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Fri Feb 05 2021 23:02:01

Hi Charles,

On 2021-02-05 14:35:27, you wrote to All:

 CP> I'm trying to make an RSS scraper to pull articles from RSS feeds and
 CP> export them to text files, to be used either in my  BBS bulletins or
 CP> message areas

 CP> I found a web page that supposedly does exactly this, however using the
 CP> code and testing I get the Folliwing error:


 CP> python scraping.py
 CP> File "scraping.py", line 5
 CP>   def
 CP> hackernews_rss('https://news.ycombinator.com/rss'):

 CP>                                        ^
 CP>  SyntaxError: invalid
 CP> syntax



 CP> The code is:

 CP> # scraping function
 CP> def hackernews_rss('https://news.ycombinator.com/rss'):

There should be a variable there between the (), not a constant in this function definition.

 CP>     try:
 CP>         r = requests.get()

Is 'requests' defined of set somewhere? I don't see it.

 CP>         return print('The scraping job succeeded: ', r.status_code)
 CP>     except Exception as e:
 CP>         print('The scraping job failed. See exception: ')
 CP>         print(e)print('Starting scraping')

 CP> hackernews_rss()

Here where you call it you can give the constant to the function, like:

hackernews_rss('https://news.ycombinator.com/rss')

 CP> print('Finished scraping')


 CP> Any idea what I flubbed?


Bye, Wilfred.

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