feedparser
Parse RSS and Atom feeds with universal handling of feed formats.
Scraping, browsers and parsing PyPI BSD-2-Clause
Used in agent projects
20
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in scraping, browsers and parsing
#16 of 16
by use in those projects
Downloads
3.4M
PyPI, last 7 days, feedparser
GitHub stars
2,441
last push Oct 6, 2026
How feedparser is used
feedparser is a dependency in 20 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #16 of 16 in scraping, browsers and parsing. The most used alternative there is Beautiful Soup. Projects that use it most often also use python-dotenv (75.0%), Requests (75.0%), FastAPI (55.0%).
Often used with feedparser
| python-dotenv | 75.0% of feedparser projects · 11.5× more than average |
|---|---|
| Requests | 75.0% of feedparser projects · 14.1× more than average |
| FastAPI | 55.0% of feedparser projects · 13.0× more than average |
| Uvicorn | 55.0% of feedparser projects · 12.8× more than average |
| Beautiful Soup | 50.0% of feedparser projects · 39.7× more than average |
| NumPy | 45.0% of feedparser projects · 11.7× more than average |
| aiohttp | 40.0% of feedparser projects · 17.2× more than average |
| Pydantic | 40.0% of feedparser projects · 7.8× more than average |
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list feedparser as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install feedparser |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (20) |
| Example projects | ericrosenberg1/CityBot2, loblawbob873-svg/posterchanai |
Alternatives to feedparser
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beautiful Soup pypi Python HTML/XML parsing and screen-scraping library for web data extraction. |
160 (1.3%) | 69M | — | MIT License |
| Puppeteer npm Headless Chrome/Chromium automation for scraping, testing and screenshot generation. |
115 (0.9%) | 11.4M | 95.7K | Apache-2.0 |
| lxml pypi High-performance XML and HTML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with Python. |
98 (0.8%) | 88.4M | 3,065 | BSD-3-Clause |
| Cheerio npm jQuery-like syntax for parsing and manipulating HTML/XML with server-side speed. |
94 (0.7%) | 26.6M | 30.5K | MIT |
| Playwright (Python) pypi High-level Python API for automating browser testing and web scraping. |
68 (0.5%) | 26M | 15K | — |
| fast-xml-parser npm High-performance XML parser and builder without native dependencies. |
58 (0.5%) | 83.3M | 3,139 | MIT |
| csv-parse npm Parse CSV files using Node.js streaming Transform API for memory-efficient processing. |
51 (0.4%) | 20.6M | 4,280 | MIT |
| Playwright Core npm Headless browser automation library for cross-browser testing and web scraping. |
49 (0.4%) | 122M | 97.4K | Apache-2.0 |