Confusing Error when feedparsing fails: KeyError: 'title'

[einvalentin]

On Macos Version 14.6.1 (23G93) (Sonoma), the default python installation misses the SSL keychain. When trying to use tonie-podcast-sync, I get a confusing error message:

╭─────────────────────────────── Traceback (most recent call last) ────────────────────────────────╮
│ /Users/valentin/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/feedparser/util.py:156 in getattr │
│ │
│ 153 │ │ # getattribute() is called first; this will be called │
│ 154 │ │ # only if an attribute was not already found │
│ 155 │ │ try: │
│ ❱ 156 │ │ │ return self.getitem(key) │
│ 157 │ │ except KeyError: │
│ 158 │ │ │ raise AttributeError("object has no attribute '%s'" % key) │
│ 159 │
│ │
│ /Users/valentin/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/feedparser/util.py:113 in getitem │
│ │
│ 110 │ │ │ │ │ │ return dict.getitem(self, k) │
│ 111 │ │ │ elif dict.contains(self, realkey): │
│ 112 │ │ │ │ return dict.getitem(self, realkey) │
│ ❱ 113 │ │ return dict.getitem(self, key) │
│ 114 │ │
│ 115 │ def contains(self, key): │
│ 116 │ │ if key in ('updated', 'updated_parsed'): │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
KeyError: 'title'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

╭─────────────────────────────── Traceback (most recent call last) ────────────────────────────────╮
│ /Users/valentin/dev/tonie-podcast-sync/tonie_podcast_sync/cli.py:32 in update_tonies │
│ │
│ 29 │ │ return │
│ 30 │ for ct_key, ct_value in settings.CREATIVE_TONIES.items(): │
│ 31 │ │ tps.sync_podcast_to_tonie( │
│ ❱ 32 │ │ │ Podcast( │
│ 33 │ │ │ │ ct_value.podcast, │
│ 34 │ │ │ │ episode_sorting=ct_value.episode_sorting, │
│ 35 │ │ │ │ volume_adjustment=ct_value.volume_adjustment, │
│ │
│ /Users/valentin/dev/tonie-podcast-sync/tonie_podcast_sync/podcast.py:51 in init │
│ │
│ 48 │ │ self.epSorting = episode_sorting # the sorting of the episode list │
│ 49 │ │ │
│ 50 │ │ self.feed = feedparser.parse(url) │
│ ❱ 51 │ │ self.title = self.feed.feed.title # title of podcast │
│ 52 │ │ self.refresh_feed() # reads feed and populates the episode list │
│ 53 │ │
│ 54 │ def refresh_feed(self) -> None: │
│ │
│ /Users/valentin/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/feedparser/util.py:158 in getattr │
│ │
│ 155 │ │ try: │
│ 156 │ │ │ return self.getitem(key) │
│ 157 │ │ except KeyError: │
│ ❱ 158 │ │ │ raise AttributeError("object has no attribute '%s'" % key) │
│ 159 │ │
│ 160 │ def hash(self): │
│ 161 │ │ # This is incorrect behavior -- dictionaries shouldn't be hashable. │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
AttributeError: object has no attribute 'title'

To fix it, you need to install the SSL certificates (follow https://stackoverflow.com/a/42098127)