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 <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
