Used Libraries in the Project

For the implementation of this project, a number of libraries have been made use of. The most important of them are as follows: | These libraries are as follows:

argparse for parsing the arguments of the CMI

xml.etree.ElementTree for parsing the XML file of RSS into XML objects

requests for fetching web pages

json for converting the dictionary into json format This library has used in the second approach for this goal, and is not in the initial implementation (in the commented section)

logging for logging info/warning/error messages when the verbose option is set to on

re for regular expression operations

datetime and dateutil for the date format conversions

textwrap for wrapping the text in 120 characters format

pickle for data serialization during caching process

reportlab for producing PDF documents

BeautifulSoup for parsing HTML content into elements