Offering an RSS feed

Tech blogs are often consumed by robots, in particular by feed readers. If we want to build a feed in Django, it’s really convenient. Django incorporates a framework called Syndication that automates tasks such as dynamic generation of XML, fields, and caching.

In app/website/feed.py, we add the following class that inherits from Feed:

from django.contrib.syndication.views import Feed
from django.urls import reverse
from .models import Post
 
class LatestEntriesFeed(Feed):
    title = "My blog"
    link = "/feed/"
    description = "Updates to posts."
 
    def items(self):
        return Post.objects.all()[:5]
 
    def item_title(self, item):
        return item.title
 
    def item_description(self, item):
  ...