Django app to build a planet, RSS/Atom feeds aggregator.
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Changing your settings.py
Modifiy your projects settings.py file following the next steps:
Check your INSTALLED_APPS in your to have installed:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
# django required contrib apps
'django.contrib.sites',
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'django.contrib.sitemaps',
# 3rd-party required apps:
'pagination',
'tagging',
'pinax_theme_bootstrap',
# and finally:
'planet',
)
Configure your database. Here goes an example using mysql:
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'postgresql', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
'NAME': 'planet', # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.
'USER': '<myuser>', # Not used with sqlite3.
'PASSWORD': '<mypass>', # Not used with sqlite3.
'HOST': '', # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3.
'PORT': '', # Set to empty string for default. Not used with sqlite3.
}
}
Choose a site id:
SITE_ID = 1
Include the following context processors:
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.core.context_processors.debug',
'django.core.context_processors.i18n',
'django.core.context_processors.media',
'django.core.context_processors.static',
'django.core.context_processors.tz',
'django.core.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
'planet.context_processors.context',
)
Please do not forget planet.context_processors.context!
Check your middlewares to include:
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
'pagination.middleware.PaginationMiddleware',
)
Please do not forget pagination.middleware.PaginationMiddleware middleware!
Add planet configuration variables:
PLANET = {
"USER_AGENT": "My Planet/1.0",
}
Configure properly your static files root directory:
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
Also your projects templates root directory:
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
'/path/to/planet/porject/templates',
# other paths...
)
And your template loaders must look like these:
TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
# some other template loaders here...
)
Finally in your project’s templates directory create a site_base.html template if you don’t already have one:
{% extends "base.html" %}
Optionally, modify cookie names so you don’t have login conflicts with other projects:
LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME = "myplanetlng"
SESSION_COOKIE_NAME = "myplanetid"
Congratulations! Your settings are complete. Now you’ll need to chenge other files in order to get a running project.
Enable planet urls
Add the planet urls include to your porjects urls.py (remember to also include admin urls so you can use the admin to manage your planet!):
from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^', include('planet.urls')),
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
# ... other url bits...
)
Syncdb and add some feeds!
Then create the database structure:
./manage.py syncdb
Add some feeds:
python manage.py planet_add_feed http://www.economonitor.com/feed/rss/ python manage.py planet_add_feed http://www.ft.com/rss/home/us
And surely you’ll want to add a cron entry to periodically update them all:
30 * * * * python manage.py planet_update_all_feeds
This attempts to pull for new posts every 30 minutes.
Now you’re done. Just run:
./manage.py runserver
and browse your planet at http://localhost:8000/ in your favorite browser!
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