I'm currently in the process of doing the exact same thing with my ttrss instance. I am using lxml. I wanted to create "pages" of comics sort of like the funnies, instead of just one big feed, since ttrss can do that already. Would you mind if I looked over your scripts? I'd love to see what your solution was.

I'm also developing something similar to your news scraper but with different end goals. I'd love to talk with you about your approaches in that domain as well.