An easy way to forward your django feed to feedburner

November 22, 2009 - by teebes -

feedburner traffic If you are using Django's syndication framework and want an easy way to track subscribers, Feedburner is probably your best bet. Of course if you already have a substantial amount of subscribers you'll want to forward the old feed to the new feed so as not to lose them.

I did this last week for this site and it worked very well, so if anyone else is trying to accomplish the same thing here is how I went about it:

First, I added the feedburner URL in settings.py (replace the URL with your own):

FEEDBURNER = 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/teebescom/'

Then, in urls.py I changed the view being called for the feed from the standard syndication view to a custom wrapper around that view.

So before it was:

url(r'^(?P(rss|atom))/$', 'django.contrib.syndication.views.feed', {'feed_dict': feeds}),

And I changed it to:

url(r'^(?P(rss|atom))/$', 'blog.views.rss.feedburner', {'feed_dict': feeds}),

Last, I added a rss.py file in the blog.views package with the following contents:

from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib.syndication.views import feed
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect

def feedburner(request, url, feed_dict):
    FEEDBURNER = getattr(settings, 'FEEDBURNER', None)
    if not FEEDBURNER or request.META['HTTP_USER_AGENT'].startswith('FeedBurner'):
        return feed(request, url, feed_dict)
    else:
        return HttpResponseRedirect(FEEDBURNER)