[Pythonmac-SIG] Blogserving with Python

[Andrew Shearer]

I wouldn't be want to be the last person without a homegrown blogging 
system in Python. So I wrote an open-source one named DirectRSS.

The unique thing about it is that it uses RSS as its native file 
format. All your posts are kept in monthly RSS archive files. You can 
create, edit, and delete posts with a Blogger API, b2 API, or 
MetaWeblog API client.

It supports categories, but not comments. For comments, I'm looking at 
adapting Mombo.

If you're using DirectRSS as a component of a larger system, you can 
use XSLT to generate your HTML files. There's also a Python-based 
generator that's integrated with a template system. (Right now, the 
only download available on SourceForge is a bundle of DirectRSS and 
ShearerSite, the template system.)

http://www.shearersoftware.com/software/web-tools/ShearerSite/

It's what I use to generate and upload static HTML files for my own 
weblog:

http://www.shearersoftware.com/personal/weblog/

All the code used to generate the weblog is public (except for 
NetNewsWire, the MetaWeblog API client), but I haven't documented 
creating the date-based archive yet, because the way it's done isn't 
particularly efficient. (I'm developing a better way starting with the 
Pictures section of my site.)

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Andrew Shearer
http://www.shearersoftware.com/