PyFeeds is an extensible tool written in Python that creates Atom feeds for websites which do not provide them at all or do not provide them with full text content. It is based on Scrapy and built with extensibility in mind. Currently it has support for Ars Technica, Facebook Pages …

While writing a new spider for Feeds I stumbled upon the following problem. I wanted to parse an XML feed with a default namespace but couldn't get it to work.