Hello and welcome
Niftyurls is a popurls-style script built entirely with Django.
View some examples
www.JavascriptNews.com
www.PythonDaddy.com
From the popurls site:
… is the dashboard for the latest web-buzz, a single page that encapsulates up-to-the-minute headlines from the most popular sites on the internet.
Unique features
- Powered by Django
- No tooltips by default, there are better ways of reading the text
- Read the news in a Facebook-style lightbox (“pop” layout)
- Read the news in a clean page (“page” layout)
- Easy editable feed settings, titles, urls, positions in the page
- Javascript assisted by jQuery
- Grid templates provided by Yui3 Grids
- Fast text replacement with Cufon
Upcoming features
- remember visitor’s last viewed links, mark new/old links
- show new links only
- videos support
- admin interface for feed configuration, more config options
- multiple domain support
- site search with database support
- usability improvements
- user accounts, openid support
- code comments, svn support
Installation (linux, localhost)
- 1. Make sure you have the following Python packages available: Django – http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Django/ Pil – http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PIL/ Feedparser – http://pypi.python.org/pypi/feedparser/ You may install these with the “pip” tool (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip/) $ pip install “django>=1.3″ $ pip install pil $ pip install feedparser
- 2. Add “niftyurls” to the INSTALLED_APPS tuple. The Niftyurls application depends on the following Django packages: ‘django.contrib.staticfiles’ ‘django.contrib.admin’ To make sure every app is enabled, add the following line to your project’s “settings.py” file: INSTALLED_APPS += (‘django.contrib.staticfiles’, ‘django.contrib.admin’, ‘niftyurls’, )
- 3. Synchronize the database $ python manage.py syncdb
- 4. To add the “niftyurls” in your templates, use the following:
{% load niftyurls_tags %} {% niftyurls_media “js,css” %} {% niftyurls_content %}
- 5. Please check the available Niftyurls settings in niftyurls/settings.py You may add custom values to NIFTYURLS_SETTINGS (please see niftyurls/settings.py) and retrive them inside your templates with: {% niftyurls_settings title %} {% niftyurls_settings h1 %}
- 6. Add some feeds in the admin interface http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/niftyurls/feed/add/ Here are some feed urls examples: – http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/popular/python?count=15 – http://www.reddit.com/.rss
- 7. Run the following command so that fresh entries are added to the database. $ python manage.py niftyurls_feeds
- 8. Niftyurls templatetags depend on the existing of the “request” inside the templates, in case of errors verify that you have passed the “RequestContext” to the templates. http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/#subclassing-context-requestcontext Make sure the TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS contains the following: (‘django.core.context_processors.request’, ‘django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth’,)