RSS Scraper

access_amherst_algo.rss_scraper.fetch_rss.fetch_rss()

Fetch the RSS feed and save it as an XML file.

This function retrieves the RSS feed from The Hub (https://thehub.amherst.edu/events.rss), and saves the raw content of the response as an XML file. The filename is timestamped based on the current date and time, and the file is stored in the rss_files directory.

The function uses the requests library to fetch the data and saves it in binary format.

Return type:

None

Examples

>>> fetch_rss()