If you are having problems installing Amara, ElementTree is another option http://effbot.org/downloads/elementtree-1.2.6-20050316.win32.exe
from elementtree import ElementTree as ET from urllib import urlopen rss = ET.parse(urlopen('index.xml')) title = rss.find('//channel/title').text articles = [item.find('title').text for item in rss.findall('//channel/item')] This is quick and dirty. Read this (http://diveintopython.org/http_web_services/review.html) before you make the real thing. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list