Django Remote Include and RSS to HTML Template Tags
PDF versionI wrote some pretty cool template tags last night for Django. One that you can use to include the content of a remote URL into a template, and another that pulls down an RSS/Atom feed and writes it out as CSS classed HTML.
Both of them can run in simple or cached mode. In cached mode, they cache the results for a specified amount of time in seconds.
Here are the tags:
The rss2html.py tag requires the Universal Feed Parser in the same directory as rss2html.py or at least on the python path.
Here is a template example for using both tags:
<html>
<head>
<titleTemplate Tag Testing</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Remote Include - No caching</h1>
{% sri http://carsongee.com/ %}
<h1>Remote Include - Caching for One Hour</h1>
{% cri http://carsongee.com/ 3600 %}
<h1>RSS 2 HTML - No Caching</h1>
{% rss2html http://carsongee.com/rss.xml %}
<h1>RSS 2 HTML - Caching for One Hour</h1>
{% rss2htmlcache http://carsongee.com/rss.xml 3600 %}
<h1>RSS 2 HTML - Caching or Not - Specify Number of Entries</h1>
{# Grab first 3 entries #}
{% rss2html http://carsongee.com/rss.xml 3 %}
{% rss2htmlcache http://carsongee.com/rss.xml 3600 3 %}
</body>
</html>
That is pretty much all there is to it. Let me know in the comments if you have any issues.
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