Django Feeds

Django Feeds is an aggregator for entries from RSS and Atom feeds.

Quick Start

Download and install the app:

pip istall django-rss-feeds

Add the app to Django:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...,
    "tagulous",
    "feeds.apps.Config",
]

Run the migrations:

python manage.py migrate

Demo

The project contains demonstration Django application, with celery, that lets you see how it all works. The demo site aggregates the feeds and publishes the Articles, grouped by date, with each page showing the Articles for the past 7 days. Links on each entry allow you navigate to ListViews for each Source, Author or Tag.

git clone [email protected]:StuartMacKay/django-feeds.git
docker-compose up

Next run a shell on the web service, so you can create an admin account, log in and add a Source and a Feed.

docker-compose exec web bash
./manage.py createsuperuser

Now log into the Django Admin. In the Feeds section, add a Source and a Feed for that Source, for example, https://news.ycombinator.com/rss. Now in the Feed changelist, select the Feed you just added and run the 'Load selected feeds' action. Voila, you now have a set of Articles created from the feed.

Settings

FEEDS_TASK_SCHEDULE, default "0 * * * *". A crontab string that set when a Celery task runs to check whether any Feeds are scheduled to load.

FEEDS_LOAD_SCHEDULE, default "0 * * * *". A crontab string that sets when Feeds is scheduled to be loaded. This can be overridden on Feeds individually.

FEEDS_USER_AGENT, the User-Agent string that identifies who is requesting the feed. Some sites won't work without this set. In any case it's always good manners to identify yourself.

FEEDS_FILTER_TITLE, default None. Python path to a function that will be dynamically imported to process the title of an entry before it is used to create or update an Article.

FEEDS_FILTER_AUTHORS, default None. Python path to a function that will be dynamically imported to process the list of authors for an entry before it is used to create or update an Article.

FEEDS_FILTER_TAGS, default None. Python path to a function that will be dynamically imported to process the list of tags for an entry before it is used to create or update an Article.

Contributing

This app was written with a single use-case - republishing a list of links to posts from other blogs. It performs that function well, but, as usual, there is always room for improvement. Feedback, feature requests, bug reports, improvements to the documentation are all welcome. Read the TODO list for things that need work and the HowTos in the docs directory to get started.