feedparser is a Python library for parsing Atom and RSS feeds, with support for related formats such as JSON and RDF. It’s useful when you need to read and process feed content from Python applications, and it provides documentation on Read the Docs and an extensive test suite run with tox.
Project status
- The source appears actively maintained: the upstream was pushed on November 2, 2026, and its latest listed updates are from July 2026.
- Update cadence is uneven. There was a gap of about ten months between September 2025 and July 2026, followed by two updates two days apart.
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Recent updates
v6.0.14
Release v6.0.14 mainly updates the underlying feed parsing dependency. It also bumps the package version and adjusts internal imports to match the newer feedparser-sgmllib package.
Breakingv6.0.13
v6.0.13 updates Python and the underlying SGML parsing dependency. It drops support for Python 3.9 and lower and replaces the old sgmllib3k dependency with feedparser-sgmllib, along with some packaging/build tweaks.
Breakingv6.0.12
v6.0.12 is a maintenance release focused on reliability and developer experience. It fixes two Python-related issues (an AssertionError crash and an unwanted DeprecationWarning) and adds a Read the Docs configuration for documentation builds.
Features6.0.11
feedparser 6.0.11 does not have publisher release notes provided in the input, so changes cannot be confirmed as fully documented there. The code diff shows the main functional change is removing reliance on the deprecated Python cgi module for Content-Type header parsing, plus various documentation and tooling updates.
6.0.10
Release 6.0.10 was published on 2022-05-21. The publisher did not provide release notes, so there is no documented information about new features, fixes, or compatibility changes in this update.