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 <[email protected]> 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 <[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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
