Feedjack: A Django-powered feed aggregator

Gustavo Picón has open-sourced Feedjack, A Django+Python-powered feed aggregator. It's software you can use to make "planet" sites.

It's currently powering these sites:

According to Gustavo's announcement, it has many advantages over Planet. Says Gustavo:

It handles historical data; you can read old posts.

It parses a lot more info, including post categories.

It generates pages/feeds with posts of a certain category (example).

It generates pages/feeds with posts from a certain subscriber (example).

It generates pages/feeds with posts of a certain category from a certain subcriber (example).

A cloud tag/folksonomy (hype 2.0 compliant) for every page and every subscriber.

It uses Django templates.

The administration is done via web (using Django’s kickass autogenerated and magical admin site), and can handle multiple planets.

Extensive use of Django’s internal cache engine. Most of the time you will have no database hits when serving pages.

Good stuff!

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on May 31, 2006

Comments

Gustavo Picon May 31, 2006 at 10:21 p.m.

Adrian:

Thanks :-). I actually have more django software waiting to be released, specially for sysadmins. I just need to write docs and ease the installation a little.

Django is a real pleasure to program with :-)

-tabo

CoolGoose June 2, 2006 at 7:32 a.m.

This is great.

Alex Bucur.

Eugene June 5, 2006 at 1:36 a.m.

Great!

I'm just thinking of development SOAP interface to Django, so objects can be edited (and created, removed, updated) using web-services.

Eugene

Paul July 20, 2006 at 7:32 a.m.

Glad to read such a nice piece of information. http://www.google.com

Ben April 30, 2007 at 7:43 a.m.

This looks great. I would like to set up a site using this tool. Can anyone recommend a host? One that also supports wordpress would be preferred. Thank you.

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