reader

Reader is an advanced Python library designed to handle the complexities of reading and managing news feeds. It aims to be an 'opinionated' solution, meaning it makes certain design choices to prioritize reliability, data consistency, and ease of use, abstracting away many common challenges associated with feed parsing and updating. This includes automatic detection of feed types (RSS, Atom, JSON Feed), intelligent content sanitization to clean up malformed HTML, and robust error handling for network issues and malformed feeds.

The core value proposition of Reader lies in its ability to provide a stable and extensible foundation for any application that needs to consume and process syndicated content. It supports conditional requests (ETag, Last-Modified) to minimize bandwidth usage and server load, and features an extensible plugin system for custom behaviors like content extraction or notification. With support for various storage backends and a focus on thread-safe operations, Reader is suitable for both small-scale personal projects and larger, more demanding data aggregation systems.