Over the weekend at Python Onsen I worked on a lifestream web application using Django and feedparser. I was really impressed with how simple feedparser is to use and how easy it is to get unified results from atom or rss feeds. You simply import feedparser and call feedparser.parse to parse a feed from a url. feeds.py ... def update_feeds(): feeds = Feed.objects.filter(feed_deleted=Fal[...]

Last weekend I went to my second Python Onsen[jp] organized by Nakai- san(id:voluntas). I talked about Python Onsen in my first blog post here. Python Onsen is a 3 day event (Fri, Sat, Sun) but as before I only participated on Saturday and Sunday. This time I opted to work on creating a lifestream web app using feedparser and Django. feedparser is a snappy little parser for reading RSS and At[...]

I just finished implementing sweetcron on my homepage. It's a pretty architecturally bare-bones but slick feed aggregator that makes a page containing all the most current information about you or what your are interested in. This page is called a "lifestream" and I liked the concept because I'm a busy person and I want to make publishing to my homepage easier so that it doesn't become dusty [...]