Add a RSS Feed

[jbpenrath]

Feature Request

Is your feature request related to a problem or unsupported use case? Please describe. We would like to create a RSS Feed to be notified when a new blogpost has been published.

Describe the solution you'd like Django provides a class django.contrib.syndication.views.Feed to create easily a RSS/Atom Feed. We could make a generic PageRSSFeed class which takes a Page model as argument then retrieve information needed (url, title, description). In this way, we could create RSS Feeds according to setting.

A simple example from documentation:

from django.contrib.syndication.views import Feed
from django.urls import reverse
from policebeat.models import NewsItem

class LatestEntriesFeed(Feed):
    title = "Police beat site news"
    link = "/sitenews/"
    description = "Updates on changes and additions to police beat central."

    def items(self):
        return NewsItem.objects.order_by('-pub_date')[:5]

    def item_title(self, item):
        return item.title

    def item_description(self, item):
        return item.description

    # item_link is only needed if NewsItem has no get_absolute_url method.
    def item_link(self, item):
        return reverse('news-item', args=[item.pk])

from django.urls import path
from myproject.feeds import LatestEntriesFeed

urlpatterns = [
    # ...
    path('latest/feed/', LatestEntriesFeed()),
    # ...
]

Discovery, Documentation, Adoption, Migration Strategy https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/contrib/syndication#django.contrib.syndication.views.Feed

Do you want to work on it through a Pull Request? Yes