[Zope-CMF] using news feed system.

[sean.upton@uniontrib.com]

Unless you know something that I don't RSS is only for link/headline
syndication; I've never used ot for anything otherwise.

When you say have news items "in" your site, I assume you mean linked "to"
from your site.  If this is right, you just need an RSS parser.  You need to
do a google search for "Python RSS" find a decent module and use it to
create an external method that passes you a list of tuples each containing a
title and url.  Make sure you cache the results, so you don't poll someones
server on every request.  Then just make your template render those links in
a sidebar or something using <dtml-in> or tal:repeat...

Sean


-----Original Message-----
From: cijiisen [mailto:cijiisen@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 12:17 AM
To: sean.upton@uniontrib.com; zope-cmf@zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope-CMF] using news feed system.


Hi,

What I am looking at is to be able to import and have news from news sites
in my website.
There are sites that provide news in the form of RSS etc I think.
I just want to have a section in my site that will be able to display the
latest news supplied by some one.
What ever be the format, source etc is not a matter,just the end result!

Thanks,
Ciji Isen

----- Original Message -----
From: <sean.upton@uniontrib.com>
To: <cijiisen@hotmail.com>; <zope-cmf@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 2:27 AM
Subject: RE: [Zope-CMF] using news feed system.


> What kind of data sources are you looking at?  RSS is great, as a way of
> syndicating links, but not much more... what kind of data are you trying
to
> import?  It has to have some sort of format and you have to have some way
of
> reading this.
>
> To my knowledge, there is nothing general purpose that will do this for
you;
> if you are trying to populate links to offsite items, you will likely need
> to find an RSS module for Python, write an external method that uses it to
> get a list, and another script to invoke the factory for the content type
> you are trying to use; on top of that, if you need to scrape/access data
> from the pages/items those links refer to, you have yet another task.
>
> Sean
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cijiisen [mailto:cijiisen@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 6:12 AM
> To: zope-cmf@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope-CMF] using news feed system.
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Can some one give me some pointers on setting up a system to use news feed
> fast and easly !
> i.e to be able to have news in my site using the news feed(rss) concept
> without much complexity.
> It would be great if we could have some documentation on this!
>
> Thanks,
> Ciji Isen
>
>
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