TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A46
MSGID: 1:106/127 031409d9
TZUTC: -0600
I'm trying to make an RSS scraper to pull articles from RSS feeds and export
them to text files, to be used either in my  BBS bulletins or message areas

I found a web page that supposedly does exactly this, however using the code
and testing I get the Folliwing error:


python scraping.py
File "scraping.py", line 5   
  def
hackernews_rss('https://news.ycombinator.com/rss'):                          
                                       ^
 SyntaxError: invalid
syntax



The code is:

# scraping function
def hackernews_rss('https://news.ycombinator.com/rss'):
    try:
        r = requests.get()
        return print('The scraping job succeeded: ', r.status_code)
    except Exception as e:
        print('The scraping job failed. See exception: ')
        print(e)print('Starting scraping')
hackernews_rss()
print('Finished scraping')


Any idea what I flubbed?

Thanks

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