RSS feeds in Django

Published on May 22, 2007

Adding RSS feeds to your site is another thing that django makes so easy for you. To start off add

(r'^feeds/(?P<url>.*)/$', 'django.contrib.syndication.views.feed',
    {'feed_dict': feeds}),

to your urls.py file

You'll also need to define the dictionary feeds which will map the <url> part of the rule above to the class which defines that feed. You can define these classes anywhere you like but a sensible place would be in a file called feeds.py in the same directory as you urls.py file.

This file should be of the format

from django.contrib.syndication.feeds import Feed
from Blog.models import BlogPost
class LatestEntries(Feed):
    title = "Latest Entries"
    link = "/blog/"
    description = "Latest Blog Posts from mysite.com"

    def items(self):
        return BlogPost.objects.order_by('-pub_date')[:5]

Import this class into your urls.py file

from PROJECT.feeds import *

Your feeds dictionary in urls.py will then be

feeds = {
    'latest': LatestEntries,
}

The LatestEntries feed will be at the url http://mysite.com/feeds/latest/

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