Using feedparser/RSS, how do I pass the feed object from views.py to .html in django?

Question

I am trying to add a simple RSS parser to my web application. The objective is to grab an RSS channel and display news from it on a single page. I managed to do this for a single object, but can't do it for many objects (say, 10).

The project assumes I have the files views.py and RSS.html .

The following IS code which is working for one single parse object.

views.py :

import feedparser

def rss(request):
    feeds = feedparser.parse("https://www.informationweek.com/rss_simple.asp")
    entry = feeds.entries[0]
    return render(
        request,
        'posts/rss.html',
        feeds={
            'title': entry.title,
            'published': entry.published,
            'summary': entry.summary,
            'link': entry.link,
            'image':entry.media_content[0]['url']
        }
    )

RSS.html :

<h3>{{ title }}</h3>
<i>Date: {{ published }}<p></i>
<b>Summary:</b><p> {{ summary }}<p>
<b>Link:</b><a href="{{ link }}"> {{ link }}</a><p>
<b>Image:</b><p><img src="{{ image }}"></img><p>

I don't understand how to pass all feeds into RSS.html.

I try to pass it through views and it doesn't work.

The following is code that does NOT work:

views.py :

return render(request, 'posts/rss.html', feeds)

RSS.html

{% for entry in feeds %}
    <li><a href="{{entry.link}}">{{entry.title}}</a></li>
{% endfor %}

Answer 1

When passing the feed object into the template, you have to loop over the entries field of the feed object:

Python:

import feedparser

def rss(request):
    feed = feedparser.parse("https://www.informationweek.com/rss_simple.asp")
    return render(request, 'posts/rss.html', {'feed': feed})

HTML:

{% for entry in feed.entries %}
    <li><a href="{{entry.link}}">{{entry.title}}</a></li>
{% endfor %}

General documentation:

• https://pythonhosted.org/feedparser/reference.html

The entries documentation:

• https://pythonhosted.org/feedparser/reference-entry.html

A list of dictionaries. Each dictionary contains data from a different entry. Entries are listed in the order in which they appear in the original feed.