I just started generating feeds for my site using the Django Syndication Framework and it honestly only took about five minutes thanks to the docs. Unfortunately, it wasn’t that clear how to add feeds that filter the models it returns based on some common relationship (ie, tags!). I did figure it out after a little code-digging, and here is the result. If you use Jonathan Buchanan‘s django-tagging app, this should work as-is for you.
The following code goes in urls.py or perhaps feeds.py, depending on how anal you are (guess where mine is). As you can see, all you have to do is subclass Feed and add it to your feeds dict. There’s some tweaks one can do for a more enjoyable RSS experience, but those are coming when I finish my tumble log app. Hope this helps!
from xdissent.blog.models import Entry from tagging.models import Tag, TaggedItem from django.contrib.syndication.feeds import Feed from models import Entry class LatestEntries(Feed): title = 'xdissent.com Blog Feed' link = '/blog/' description = "Updates on changes and additions to xdissent.com" def items(self): return Entry.objects.filter(public=True)[:10] class TaggedEntriesFeed(Feed): def get_object(self, bits): # don't worry about validation - will raise DoesNotExist if error tag = Tag.objects.get(name=bits[0]) return tag def items(self, obj): return TaggedItem.objects.get_by_model(Entry.objects.filter(public=True), obj)[:10] def link(self, obj): # should probably be a call to Tag.get_absolute_url() or similar return '/tags/%s/' % obj def title(self, obj): return 'xdissent.com Feed for tag %s' % obj def description(self, obj): return 'Updates on changes and additions to xdissent.com tagged %s' % obj feeds = { 'latest': LatestEntries, 'tags': TaggedEntriesFeed, } urlpatterns = patterns('', ... url(r'^feeds/(?P<url>.*)/$', 'django.contrib.syndication.views.feed', {'feed_dict': feeds}, name='feeds'), )
Alex Ezell
