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Officially Lucky: django-galaxy: a reusable feed aggregator in Django - Officially Lucky, a blog by Clint Ecker

  • zerok · 1 year ago
    Great :-) Will you eventually move the script into a management command? Just curious because I'm currently thinking about rewriting some of my stuff this way.
  • Clint Ecker · 1 year ago
    Just yesterday I was racking my brain to think of how I could
    eliminate that ugly script! One of the ideas I came up with was a
    management command. I think I'll probably be trending in that
    direction. It's one of the things I haven't done yet with Django and
    I'd really like to try!
  • tabo · 1 year ago
    Nice, I'll definitely take a look on this.

    Now about feedjack, I'd like to point that it is an _old_ piece of software that I hacked together in a weekend to teach myself django. It's so old that django sites wasn't documented (so I didn't use them) and django-taggin just didn't exist ;) I've been patching it to fix bugs and add minor features here and there, but the main design of the app still remains.

    My short term plan is to do something like you just did. First write a new denormalized tagging app so the site doesn't rely so much on caching (count aggregates are NOT good for your DB), then a pluggable "do-what-I-want-with-feeds-and-apis" app (placeholder in http://code.google.com/p/pypipes/ ), and then a site that uses these apps. That's all in my short-term TODO, I just need some time ;)

    And about feedjack not being optimal in plugging it to a site, well, it's true in the sense that the process isn't _documented_. I've helped a couple of users on doing that privately and it's really easy to do. Feedjack is, after all, a django app with public models and _lots_ of helpers to plug them in a existing site.

    Anyway, I got my copy of Practical Django Projects yesterday. I'll read it as soon as I can, maybe I'm missing something :)
  • Clint Ecker · 1 year ago
    Thanks for stopping by, tabo!

    There's not nearly as much work put into my project as you've done
    with yours. In fact I borrowed some ideas here and there from how you
    processed entries out of Feedburner.

    I didn't mean to say that your application behaved badly or anything,
    and I did forget to mention that your application was written during
    the dark ages of Django ;)

    I just meant that there is a lot of stuff that's in there that's
    duplicated and can be handled nicely using Django's built-in
    facilities, mainly sites and caching. I've also always been a little
    confused about the Feeds/Sites/Subscribers system you had going.

    I wanted to see if I could build a bare bones aggregator with just
    Blogs, Posts, and seeing if Django could do the rest. I'm hoping to
    be able to convert over ArsLounge on a test site to see how well that
    works!