Those are some high level ideas for you. Hopefully it's enough to get you
started.
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
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