main.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import urllib
import xmltodict
import unicodecsv
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

import json

FEED_URL = 'https://feeds.feedburner.com/thetimferrissshow'
FEED_FILE = 'rss.xml'
CSV_FILE = 'extract.csv'
# AUDIO_BOOK_PATTERN = '<a href= "http://www.audible.com'

findings = {}

print "Fetching XML"
urllib.urlretrieve (FEED_URL, FEED_FILE)

with open(FEED_FILE) as fd:
    doc = xmltodict.parse(fd.read())

for item in doc['rss']['channel']['item']:
	findings[item['title']] = item['description']
	soup = BeautifulSoup(item['description'], "html.parser")
	#print(soup.prettify())
	findings[item['title']] = []
	link_enum = 0
	for link in soup.find_all('a'):
		if link.get('href').find("amazon") > 1:
			findings[item['title']][link_enum] = {}
			findings[item['title']][link_enum]['link'] = link.get('href')
			findings[item['title']][link_enum]['type'] = 'Book?'
			link_enum += 1
			#print link.get('href')
		if link.get('href').find('audible') > 1:
			print link
			#print link.get['href'
			findings[item['title']][link_enum] = {}
			findings[item['title']][link_enum]['link'] = link.get('href')
			findings[item['title']][link_enum]['type'] = 'Audiobook?'
			link_enum += 1
			#print link.get('href')

with open(CSV_FILE, 'w') as csvfile:
	fieldnames = ['Episode', 'Description']
	writer = unicodecsv.DictWriter(csvfile, fieldnames=fieldnames)

	writer.writeheader()
	for ep in findings:
		#print ep
		writer.writerow({'Episode': ep})

#if removing the below, remove import
# print json.dumps(findings)