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I had a need to generate a basic media rss feed (http://video.search.yahoo.com/mrss) for photologue galleries. It is implemented (attached) and works well for easily generating a feed for each gallery as well as a basic feed for the gallery archive. It should be very easy to integrate into photologue with sensible defaults, if there is interest.
Consider this user code added to urls.py:
from utils.feedgenerator import photofeeds urlpatterns += patterns('', url(r'^feeds/(?P<url>.*)/$', 'django.contrib.syndication.views.feed', {'feed_dict': photofeeds}), )
Without customization, this will generate a feed for the gallery archive at /feeds/gallery/ It will contain a single photo per gallery, as returned by Gallery.sample()
Additionally, each gallery has a dynamic feed available at the url via Gallery.title_slug: /feeds/gallery/gallery-title-slug/ This feed will contain an Item for each Photo in the Gallery
All that is left is to add an autodiscovery feed to your pages in <head>: e.g Add something like this to gallery_detail.html:
<link rel="alternate" href="/feeds/gallery/{{ object.title_slug }}/" type="application/rss+xml" title="Photologue Gallery - {{ object.title }}" id="gallery_feed" />
Attachments: feedgenerator.py (required) - Feed implementation
gallery_feed_title.html (optional) - Template for rendering item titles in feed
gallery_feed_description.html (optional) - Template for rendering item descriptions in feed
photofeed_urls.py (example) - Example showing how to customize the feed a bit and add to your urls.py. Assumes feedgenerator.py is installed in a utils package and the templates are in /templates/feeds/. Feed will be published
- feedgenerator.py 5.55KB
Comment #1
Posted on Jun 5, 2009 by Swift KangarooMistake...photofeed_urls.py assumes the templates are in the standard location, not in a feed subdir.
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