This article is in continuation of Blog CMS Project in Django. Check this out here – Building Blog CMS (Content Management System) with Django
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Feed
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a web feed that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format. These feeds can, for example, allow a user to keep track of many different websites in a single news aggregator. Django comes with an library to create atom feed for our blog.
Creating views for RSS Feed –
Go to blog app directory and create a file feeds.py and paste the below code.
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from django.contrib.syndication.views import Feedfrom django.template.defaultfilters import truncatewordsfrom .models import postsfrom django.urls import reversefrom django.utils.feedgenerator import Atom1Feedclass blogFeed(Feed): title = "neveropen" link = "/posts/" description = "RSS feed of GeeksForGeeks" def items(self): return posts.objects.filter(status = 1) def item_title(self, item): return item.title def item_description(self, item): return item.metades def item_link(self, item): return reverse('post_detail', args =[item.slug])class atomFeed(Feed): feed_type = Atom1Feed |
Create Routes for RSS Feed –
To route the RSS feed go to urls.py file of the app you are using for generating feed and add the route
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# importing django routing librariesfrom . import viewsfrom django.urls import path, includefrom .views import * from .feeds import blogFeedurlpatterns = [..... # RSS route path("posts / feed", blogFeed(), name ="feed"),.....] |
Sample Feed
Sample Feed
Sitemap –
Sitemap protocol allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling. A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes. This allows search engines to crawl the site more efficiently and to find URLs that may be isolated from the rest of the site’s content.
Add sitemaps to INSTALLED_APPS –
Django also comes with a sitemaps creator go to the blog app directory and add sitemaps to installed apps in settings file
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INSTALLED_APPS = [ 'django.contrib.admin', 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', 'blog', # adding in installed apps 'django.contrib.sitemaps',] |
Create Sitemap –
Create a file sitemaps.py and paste the below code.
Python3
from django.contrib.sitemaps import Sitemapfrom .models import posts# sitemap classclass blogSitemap(Sitemap):# change frequency and priority changefreq = "daily" priority = 1.0 def items(self): return posts.objects.filter(status = 1) def lastmod(self, obj): return obj.updated_on |
Add absolute URL to model –
Sitemap generated should have urls for our posts so we need to add a simple function to our model so that we sitemap library can generate posts urls
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# add it in your model for which you want to generate sitemapdef get_absolute_url(self): from django.urls import reverse return reverse("post_detail", kwargs ={"slug": str(self.slug)}) |
Routing for sitemap –
Now to generate the sitemap url, Go to urls.py file of the and add the route
Python3
# adding sitemap librariesfrom django.contrib.sitemaps.views import sitemapfrom blog.sitemaps import blogSitemapblogsitemap = {"blog": blogSitemap, }urlpatterns = [..... # urls handling site maps path("sitemap.xml", sitemap, {"sitemaps": blogsitemap}, name ="sitemap"),.....] |
Now you can see RSS feed and Sitemaps at assigned urls
Sample Sitemap
Sample Sitemap
