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dive into mark: Ultra-liberal RSS locator

End of rant. Beginning of solution. rssfinder.py. GPL-licensed. It does all that.

Mark uses list comprehensions in his code, so he’s running Python 2 or later. Also part of Python 2: the string object functions startswith() and endswith(), so he could easily (and more understandably [is this correct adverb usage?]) write if not type.startswith(self.RSSTYPE) instead of if type[:len(self.RSSTYPE)] != self.RSSTYPE: (class LinkParser, function getLocalLinks) :-)

Other than that, I had a long time to find out that the main index page generated by Movable Type is itself an RSS feed!