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Automatically Extracting feed links (atom, rss,etc) from webpages
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup as parser

def detect_feeds_in_HTML(input_stream):
    """ examines an open text stream with HTML for referenced feeds.

    This is achieved by detecting all ``link`` tags that reference a feed in HTML.

    :param input_stream: an arbitrary opened input stream that has a :func:`read` method.
    :type input_stream: an input stream (e.g. open file or URL)
    :return: a list of tuples ``(url, feed_type)``
    :rtype: ``list(tuple(str, str))``
    """
    # check if really an input stream
    if not hasattr(input_stream, "read"):
        raise TypeError("An opened input *stream* should be given, was %s instead!" % type(input_stream))
    result = []
    # get the textual data (the HTML) from the input stream
    html = parser(input_stream.read())
    # find all links that have an "alternate" attribute
    feed_urls = html.findAll("link", rel="alternate")
    # extract URL and type
    for feed_link in feed_urls:
        url = feed_link.get("href", None)
        # if a valid URL is there
        if url:
            result.append(url)
    return result

<link rel="alternative" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://link.to/feed">
<link rel="alternative" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://link.to/feed">