rohitj's domain » FeedParser http://rohitj.net Yet more clitches Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:32:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How to run feedparser behind proxy http://rohitj.net/blog/2008/03/13/how-to-run-feedparser-behind-proxy/ http://rohitj.net/blog/2008/03/13/how-to-run-feedparser-behind-proxy/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:12:34 +0000 admin http://www.rohitj.net/blog/2008/03/13/how-to-run-feedparser-behind-proxy/ So, I had to change the feedparser code to run it behind proxy. Basically the idea is that python by default doesn’t user environment variables http proxy. You have to specify it in the python code.

In feedparser code, url is accessed at the line # 1895. Now, opener has to have http settings so that it could access the url. For that, I added 2 lines before calling opener:

proxy_support = urllib2.ProxyHandler({"http" : "http://<username>:<passwd>@<proxyserver>:<proxyport>"});
opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy_support)

Here is the final feedparser : FeedParser With Proxy Support

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