Podregator

A content aggregator for some of my favorite podcasts.

Features

• RSS Feed Parsing using the feedparser library.
• Custom django-admin command.
• Task scheduling using Advanced Python Scheduler and django-apscheduler.
• Unit tests.
• Logging.

Running the project locally.

To run the code locally ensure you have git and Python 3.8 or above installed. It'll be also helpful to have Pipenv installed. Clone the repo into your computer through:

git clone https://github.com/rkthoya/Podregator.git

While inside the repo install the project dependencies using

pipenv install

Activate your virtual environment:

pipenv shell

Run the migrations to create a simple SQLite database:

python manage.py migrate

To see a demo of parsed episodes on the homepage you might need to alter the time interval between a task's execution. You can do this in the aggregator/management/commands/runjobs.py. In the handle() method of the Command class, change the "hours" argument in any of the scheduler.add_job() functions to minutes. For example:

scheduler.add_job(
            fetch_stackoverflow_episodes,
            trigger="interval",
            # hours=120,
            minutes=2,
            id="The Stack Overflow Podcast",
            max_instances=1,
            replace_existing=True,
        )

You'll need two separate terminals - both in the same virtual environment - to run the development server and scheduled tasks:

python manage.py runserver

python manage.py runjobs