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Reading Hacker News RSS with DuckDB

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stupid question: why did you not use feedparser? https://github.com/kurtmckee/feedparser/

That would be a strange choice for reading RSS with Duckdb. On a more serious note, it says so in the blog:

I wanted to see DuckDB in action. Since DuckDB can already read remote text, CSV, JSON, Parquet, and even Excel, it seemed natural to try replacing requests with read_text

And

In the end, this wasn’t about building a reader or replacing RSS clients. It was about bending DuckDB in a direction it wasn’t designed for and seeing how far it could go. I like DuckDB because it makes small data fun again: quick to set up, light to use, and surprisingly flexible when you throw odd formats at it.

I like to build.

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