python - Fetch the Ubuntu USN from a script

Question

While doing Penetration Tests, it could be useful to consult security bugs grouped by distribution versions. More specifically, I would like to fetch Ubuntu Security Notices from a python script.

My idea was to use urllib2 to fetch the data and BeautifulSoup to clean up the results.

Does anybody think of a cleaner way to achieve this result?

** UPDATE **

As pointed out by Omnikrys and John Mee, Atom and RSS are more easy format to work with, but AFAIK they only refer to newer distros, while I need a broader database.

Answer 1

不，你在正确的轨道上。尽管解析供程序消费的 RSS（或Atom ）提要可能比用汤解构供人类消费的网页更容易。