Python RSS Reader

A simple RSS reader written in Python. It floats on top of any open application and can be dragged anywhere on screen, so it never obscures anything important.

What it does

• Monitors two feeds: SGX company announcements and the Straits Times Singapore section.
• On launch it pulls the 10 latest posts from each source; thereafter each is polled once a minute for new entries.
• It keeps a rolling list of the 10 most recent entries per source and displays a random one for eight seconds at a time.

Libraries

• Standard library — tkinter, sys and random.
• Third-party — feedparser to parse the RSS data.

Issues & ideas

• Add more relevant feeds.
• Consider a multi-line output.
• No notification or alert yet when a new item arrives.

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