Track Indian startup funding with Python (stdlib RSS)

“How much did Indian startups raise this week?” sounds like a question with one answer. It has at least three. The main Indian startup publications each publish a weekly funding roundup, and for the same week their totals disagree — because each uses a different date window, a different deal list, and a different way of handling currency. Rather than pick one roundup and trust it, you can track Indian startup funding with Python: we built a small script that pulls funding headlines straight from the publications’ RSS feeds and writes them to a CSV. Every row keeps its source and link, so any figure can be traced back to the headline it came from. The columns are: date, source, company_guess, amount_as_reported, title, link. The feeds We probed a handful of feed URLs. Four…