From 7d4d1311bb8fb96938ad2a15669a0dcf39071611 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Denis Lehmann <denis@opaque.tech>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 16:04:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] show error message if no articles were returned from
 feedparser

---
 spiderss.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/spiderss.py b/spiderss.py
index 99ea317..45ba037 100755
--- a/spiderss.py
+++ b/spiderss.py
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ Utility functions
 
 # Get articles of a feed 
 def get_articles(feed):
+
     feed = feedparser.parse(feed['url'])
     return feed.entries
 
@@ -216,6 +217,9 @@ def update_feed(feed):
     # Update articles
     articles = get_articles(feed)
     threshold_date = datetime.now() - timedelta(days = max_age)
+
+    if len(articles) == 0:
+        error('no articles received from feed "{}"'.format(feed['name']))
     
     for a in articles:
         
@@ -302,7 +306,7 @@ def initialize():
         os.makedirs(lovedpath)
 
 
-# Update all feeds and delete old messages
+# Update all feeds and remove old articles
 def crawl():
 
     log('crawling feeds', True)