get_series.py

from icalendar import Calendar
from PyRSS2Gen import RSSItem, RSS2
import re,urllib,feedparser

ICAL_URL = 'http://www.pogdesign.co.uk/cat/download_ics/dd1cc774b062db1df0a594402f3ac10b'

url = urllib.urlopen(ICAL_URL)

cal = Calendar.from_string(url.read())
events = cal.walk('VEVENT')

p = re.compile('(.*) Episodes, TV Shows')

series = []
for event in events:
    serie = event.get('CATEGORIES')
    serie = p.match(serie).groups()[0].strip()
    series.append(serie)

series = list(set(series))
print series

# generate the rss urls
hit_list = []
for name in series:
    name = urllib.quote(name)
    feed = feedparser.parse('http://ezrss.it/search/index.php?show_name=%s&quality=720p&mode=rss'%name)
    if len(feed['items'])==0:
            feed = feedparser.parse('http://ezrss.it/search/index.php?show_name=%s&mode=rss'%name)
    print feed.url
    hit_list.append(feed)

# get the feeds and join them in one big list
feeds = hit_list
print "Found",len(feeds),"feeds."

entries = []
for feed in feeds:
    entries.extend(feed['items'])

# this section is for sorting the entries
decorated = [(entry["date_parsed"], entry) for entry in entries]
decorated.sort()
decorated.reverse()
entries = [entry for (date,entry) in decorated]

items = [RSSItem(**item) for item in entries]
feeds = RSS2(title="My series feed",description="This feed is an aggregation of various feeds",link="",items = items)
f = open('feed.xml','w')
f.write(feeds.to_xml())
f.close()