Yea, URLFetch has some builtin caching, however that will only cache the response of the URLFetch, it won't cache all the parsing/processing of the RSS feed (which would be a better thing for you to cache in Memcache). The idea of Memcache is fairly simple: Look for the item in memcache by some key that you know about, if the item isn't in memcache then put the item in memcache (in your case, urlfetch the rss, parse it, and throw it in memcache) using the same key you tried to get it with. The Memcache pattern article can be found here: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/memcache/usingmemcache.html#Pattern
As far as parsing/processing the RSS feed... there's a million ways to skin a dead cat. Personally I would be inclined to write an xslt transformation that does the RSS to HTML for me, but if you're a beginner then xslt is probably not a good option. There's an opensource RSS feed parser for python lib that you can use - http://www.feedparser.org/ - although I haven't used it. A quick looks as though it converts the feed into a dictionary. You could then pass this dict to whatever django template you're using. Those are some high level ideas for you. Hopefully it's enough to get you started. Good luck! - ryan. On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 8:47 AM, benji <bco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Ryan, > > I thought point 3 seems like the proper direction to go in, thanks. > > I can handle putting together a simple django template I would say - > seems straight forward enough. However I'm stuck from there on in! > i.e. the python based importing of the RSS feed, cache, parsing to > html elements and output into the template... > > I think URL Fetch seems to be the way to go from what I can work out > form the documentation as this has in built caching facility - right? > > I got this functionality working with JSON using JS code provided by > google code examples - but the requirement is to embed the data for > SEO purposes and of course implementing a cache for > unobtrusiveness.... > > where do I start? > > Thanks again for the help, really very much appreciated! > > Cheers > > Ben > > > > > On Oct 28, 2:27 pm, ryan baldwin <ryanbald...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Point 3 seems like the proper choice (along with some caching). Where are > > you getting lost? In how to parse with python, how to cache, or how to > > render in a template (or all of the above?) > > > > - ryan. > > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:35 AM, benji <bco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > I am brand new to GAE and Python and have very limited programming > > > skills thus far, so this is a cry for help after spending the last few > > > days trawling google for a solution :( > > > > > I want to import, parse and embed an RSS feed from a Google > > > spreedsheet. I have done this before in a PHP script that simply acts > > > as a proxy to parse RSS into HTML and used a Server Side Include to > > > embed the output of the PHP script - nice and easy and SEO friendly. > > > > > So far I currently only have a very simple static set up on GAE as > > > follows: > > > > > handlers: > > > > > - url: / > > > > > static_files: assets/index.html > > > > > upload: assets/index.html > > > > > - url: / > > > > > static_dir: assets > > > > > I thought I may have 3 different potential solutions, > > > > > 1) somehow point a url at an external domain that can handle PHP - > > > thought it was worth a try in the YAML file - wishful thinking!! > > > > > ie. > > > > > - url:/PageNeedingRSSProxyData > > > > > static_dir:http://otherdomain.com/PageWithRSSProxyData > > > > > 2) Grabbing the output of the external PHP file with URL fetch API and > > > caching it, then including the file in the HTM using django templates > > > - i looked at this and got very lost. > > > > > 3) Grabing the RSS feed directly and parsing it with Python and > > > embedding it in a web page - again got very lost. > > > > > Can anyone point me in the right direction? or am i too far out of my > > > depth? > > > > > Any help on this would be awesome and very much appreciated. > > > > > Cheers > > > > > Ben > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
