Question

The output from the following:

import feedparser
d = feedparser.parse( http://www.netflix.com/NewWatchInstantlyRSS )
d.entries[177].keys()

is:

[ summary_detail ,  links ,  title ,  summary ,  guidislink ,  title_detail ,  link ,  id ]

According to http://feedparser.org/docs/common-rss-elements.html, there should be a "date" element in the entries.

A clue perhaps is that when I open http://www.netflix.com/NewWatchInstantlyRSS on Firefox or Safari (on Mac OS X), I don t see any dates. (Actually Safari puts the date & time that I opened the feed beside each element.) But somehow Google Reader gets the unique dates for each element. (That s the reason I chose entry 177 above--that s the index to Dare , which is the first entry for today according to Google Reader, which shows "8:32 AM" beside it.)

Is there something I m not understanding about RSS? Am I missing some kind of cross-reference feed with the dates? I ve combed through all the entries in the feed and in several entries and don t see anything that might point to a different URL or any kind of dates.

Answer 1

IF you look at the raw source of the RSS feed at http://www.netflix.com/NewWatchInstantlyRSS (Open in a web browser and view the source) you ll see they did not include a date element. There SHOULD be, but there is not.

EDIT: Sorry I didn t read your question completely. I don t know where Google is getting its value for the date. I put the feed in google as well and I m getting 10:32 AM Today for Dare which is not equal to yours no matter what timezone. I would say their own cache as to when they retrieved the updated feed and perhaps they have different servers which would explain our differences.

There s no special properties of RSS feeds to get this value when it simply isn t there. IF you need it. I suggest using a method similar to what I believe Google is using.

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