Feed Extension
The Feed extension allows site administrators to include blog entries in the main content of templates using named
references to atom or rss feeds.
Note: This extension requires ckan 1.7 or higher
Activating and Installing
To install the plugin, enter your virtualenv and load the source::
(pyenv)$ git install -e hg+https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-feedcontent#egg=ckanext-feedcontent
This will also register a plugin entry point, so you now should be
able to add the following to your CKAN .ini file::
ckan.plugins = feed_content
At this point nothing will have happened! To add feeds to your system see below.
Running the tests
You can run the tests from the root of this repository with the following command
nosetests --ckan --with-pylons=test-core.ini ckanext/feedcontent/tests/
Using the Extension
Adding feeds
To add feeds to CKAN you should log on as a system administrator and then visit /feed/ from where you will be able to add a new feed or edit an existing one. When you need to update a feed you should visit /feed/ from where you will be able to view the feed to be updated and then press the update button.
Setting up the example
Go to the url of your CKAN instance, and go to /feed/ where you should add a new feed with a title of ‘ckan’ (without the quotes), a url of ‘http://ckan.org/feed’ and tick the HTML Entries checkbox.
Add the following line to your configuration
ckan.feed.demo = yes
Point your browser to the home page of your CKAN instance. This simple example shows in ckanext/feedcontent/templates/example/home.html how the feed items can be included.
Using feeds
To reference a feed and add an entry in a template you should use the feed_entry helper and provide it both the name of the feed (name, not title, is the one shown in the URL as a slug) and a regular expression for the title it should match.
In the following example it fetches (and renders) the entr