I wrote a small simple program which checks the RSS feed of a german news site, saves the pubDate, title, description and link of the last article and saves it to a txt file. After running over 11 hours on my raspberry pi I suddenly get a ValueError:
Time: [10:49:25] - Iteration nr. 2588 - Articles found: 21Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/thore/Desktop/main.py", line 16, in <module> if f.entries[0].title != last_item or last_item == "":IndexError: list index out of rangeWhy is that happening?
my Code:
import feedparserimport datetimeimport timelast_item = ("")x = 1news_nr = 1articles_found = 0while True: todays_date = datetime.date.today() today_formatted = todays_date.strftime("%d.%m.%Y") time_now = datetime.datetime.now() time_formatted = time_now.strftime("%H:%M:%S") f = feedparser.parse("https://www.tagesschau.de/xml/rss2/") if f.entries[0].title != last_item or last_item == "": with open("Tagesschau.txt", "a") as myfile: myfile.write(f""" Article nr.: {news_nr} - Saved at: Date {today_formatted}, Time {time_formatted}\n Published: {f.entries[0].published} Title: {f.entries[0].title} Text: {f.entries[0].description} Link: {f.entries[0].link}\n """) myfile.close() news_nr += 1 articles_found += 1 last_item = f.entries[0].title print(f"Time: [{time_formatted}] - Iteration nr. {x} - Articles found: {articles_found}") x += 1 time.sleep(15)
