RSSFeedTime

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import feedparser, time, random

url = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=flu"
followTime = False

# now = time.mktime(time.localtime())
lastmessagetime = None

# SET THE LASTTIME BASED ON THE FEED...
feed = feedparser.parse(url)
lastmessagetime = time.mktime(feed.entries[0].updated_parsed)


while True:
    print "."
    time.sleep(5)
    feed = feedparser.parse(url)

    for e in reversed(feed.entries):
        etime = time.mktime(e.updated_parsed)

        if etime <= lastmessagetime:
            # print "skipping message"
            continue

        # Reproduce the timing of the messages...
        if followTime:
            if lastmessagetime != None:
                elapsed = (etime - lastmessagetime)
                time.sleep(elapsed)        
        else:
            time.sleep(random.randint(0,5))


        print e.title.encode("utf-8")
        print
        lastmessagetime = etime