jobscry / vz-stream

Another Django LifeStream

VZ Stream

A Django powered life stream app.

Requirements

• Django 1.2+
• Universal FeedParser
• jQuery 1.3+
• jQuery Visualize Plugin

TODO

• templates
  • view all entries
  • view entries by source
  • view entries by date
  • stream stats
• search/filter entries
• cron job script

Features

• Smart updating: uses E-Tag or last-modified from headers to determine if source should be updated or not. For feeds that have neither, only add entries newer than the source's last entry.
• Twitter parsing, if the feed is a twitter feed @USER is converted to a link, as well as #TOPIC.

Settings

You can put STREAM_NUM_ENTIRES in your settings.py, this should be an integer. This defines how many entries to get in the stream_view view. Defaults to 20.

Templates

Templates follow the Django Best Practices.

Template Blocks for stream_view.html

• extends base.html
• content_title
• content

Template Blocks for stream_stats.html

• extends base.html
• extra_head - only if you want the jQuery Visualize graphs
• content_title
• content

Updating Your Life Stream

Included is a custom Django-Admin Command that will update your life stream. This can be added to a cron task.

python path/to/project/manage.py stream_update