A brief Python script by John O'Connor to find reasonably priced hard drives from popular vendors for a bulk storage array. The script works by parsing RSS or Atom feeds and extracting the size and price of the drives to compute a price/GB ratio which is then sorted.
$ python setup.py install
(sudo) if necessary
Specify a file that contains one feed URL per line
$ cheapdrives spindles.list
or manually specify one or more URLs on the command line
$ cheapdrives http://some_url/with_rss_feed
- Python 2.5+ http://www.python.org
- Feedparser http://code.google.com/p/feedparser