Django CMS RSS Plugin

Simple plugin to show an RSS feed in your django cms site.

Features

• Show specified number of feeds in the page.
• You can choose to open the feed in current window or new window.
• Show any RSS feed you specified, it can be your external RSS url, or your internal RSS relative url like '/myblog/rss'.
• The feed list would be cached for specified time long.
• You can choose the template of your RSS feed or use the default

Usage

Installation:

$ pip install django-rss-plugin

Add rssplugin to your INSTALLED_APPS in Django settings.py file, Like following:

INSTALLED_APPS=(
      'rssplugin',
)

Django >= 1.7:

Run django migrate to install plugin database:

$ python manage.py migrate rssplugin

Django and South:

In your settings.py file, set the south migration module:

SOUTH_MIGRATION_MODULES = {
  'rssplugin': 'rssplugin.south_migrations',
}

Run south migrate to install plugin database:

$ python manage.py migrate rssplugin

Django < 1.7 without South:

$ python manage.py syncdb

template filter

1. parsed_to_date:

   {% load rss_tags %}
   {{ entry.published_parsed|parsed_to_date|timesince }}
   

see rss.html for usage examples.

Notice, both external link like 'http：//example.com/rss' and internal link like '/blog/rss' are supported.

Using custom templates

Use CMS_RSS_PLUGIN_TEMPLATE = "path_to_your_template.html" in settings.py to set a custom template, default is rss/rss.html.

If you specify CMS_RSS_PLUGIN_TEMPLATES instead, rssplugin offers authors an optional choice of custom templates.

Example:

CMS_RSS_PLUGIN_TEMPLATES = (
    ('short.html', gettext('Short')),
    ('long.html', gettext('Long')),
    ('mailing_list.html', gettext('List Server')),
)

For a reference of the feed and entry attributes you can use in your templates, have a look at the feedparser dokumentation: https://pythonhosted.org/feedparser/

Feed timeout

Use CMS_RSS_PLUGIN_FEEDPARSER_TIMEOUT = seconds in settings.py to set a custom socket timeout, default is 60

Online Resources

• Code repository.