Find today's RSS entries with feedparser

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It seems I could just findAll <datepub> tags with BeautifulSoup and match it today's date

You could to that.
Now will task work fine from feedparser to.
If just set a range() to number like eg 10 and loop.

>>> for n in range(10):
...     dgtw['entries'][n]['published']
...     
'Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:07:41 GMT'
'Tue, 11 Jun 2019 15:03:52 GMT'
'Tue, 11 Jun 2019 14:43:21 GMT'
'Tue, 11 Jun 2019 13:58:31 GMT'
'Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:24:25 GMT'
'Tue, 11 Jun 2019 03:13:45 GMT'
'Mon, 10 Jun 2019 21:56:47 GMT'
'Mon, 10 Jun 2019 19:58:24 GMT'
'Mon, 10 Jun 2019 19:38:59 GMT'
'Mon, 10 Jun 2019 14:07:38 GMT'

So see that there is 6 entries today.
Then can just do a quick hack.

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> 
>>> today = datetime.today().day
>>> today
12
>>> today_match =  f', {today}'
>>> today_match
', 12'

when have ', 12' can just use in to look if there is a match in published date string.

>>> today_match =  ', 11'
>>> count = 0
>>> for n in range(10):
...     p_date = dgtw['entries'][n]['published']     
...     if today_match in p_date:
...         count += 1       
...         
>>> count
6