Hi,

In case you want to display some feeds you can use something like this:

class PluginWikiWidgets(PluginWikiWidgets):
    @staticmethod
    def aggregator(feed, max_entries=5):

        import gluon.contrib.feedparser as feedparser
        d = feedparser.parse(feed)
        title=d.channel.title,
        link = d.channel.link,
        description = d.channel.description,
        strg='<a href='+link[0]+'>'+'<b>'+ title[0]+'</b></a><br/><br/>'
        count=0; 
        for entry in d.entries:
                created_on = request.now            
                strg+='<a href='+entry.link+'>'+entry.title+ ' - ' + entry.updated+ '</a><br/>'
                strg+=entry.description+'<br/><br/>'
                count+=1
                if count >= int(max_entries): 
                    break
        return XML(strg)

It can be included in a page using the widget syntax:

``
name:aggregator
feed:http://rss.cbc.ca/lineup/topstories.xml
max_entries:4
``:widget

I got inspired from web2py planet, but that was just for creating feeds, whereas I needed just to display them. I hope that someone will find this useful and make it even better. It requires some beautifying work among others.

Bogdan

Edit:

I made some changes to make it slicker. For some reason the included jquery-ui lib did not work properly in the sense that the dialog was not following the mouse so I had to include one script form the google code site even though it is older. Maybe someone can figure out why 1.8.9 did not work. Anyway this si the include

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.4/jquery-ui.min.js">

the new plugin:

class PluginWikiWidgets(PluginWikiWidgets):
    @staticmethod
    def aggregator(feeds, max_entries=5):
        import gluon.contrib.feedparser as feedparser
        lfeeds = feeds.split(",")
        #strg='<script>var divDia = document.createElement("div"); divDia.id ="dialog"; document.body.appendChild(divDia);</script>'
        strg='''
              <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.9/jquery-ui.min.js"></script> 
              <script>  
              var divDia = document.createElement("div"); 
              divDia.id ="dialog"; 
              document.body.appendChild(divDia); 
              var $dialog=$("#dialog").dialog({
                          autoOpen: false,
                          draggable: false,
                          resizable: false,
                          width: 500
                        });
             </script> 
              '''
        for feed in lfeeds:
            d = feedparser.parse(feed)
            title=d.channel.title,
            link = d.channel.link,
            description = d.channel.description,
            strg+='<a href='+link[0]+'>'+'<b>'+ title[0]+'</b></a><br/>'
            count=0;
            for entry in d.entries:
                    created_on = request.now            
                        strg+='<a rel=' + '"'+entry.description+'"' +' href='+entry.link+'>'+entry.title+ ' - ' + entry.updated+ '</a><br/>'
                    #strg+=entry.description+'<br/><br/>'
                    #strg+='<br/>'
                    strg+='''<script> $("a").mouseover(function () {
                                        var msg = $(this).attr("rel");
                                        if (msg) {
                                             $dialog[0].innerHTML = msg;
                                             $dialog.dialog("open");
                                             $(".ui-dialog-titlebar").hide();
                                         }
                                   }).mousemove(function(event) {
                                          $dialog.dialog("option", "position", {
                                            my: "left top",
                                            at: "right bottom",
                                            of: event,
                                            offset: "10 10"
                                      });
                             }).mouseout(function(){
                                    $dialog.dialog("close");
                                });
                  </script>'''
                    count+=1

                    if count >= int(max_entries): 
                        break
            strg+='<br/><br/>'
        strg+="<br/>"                
        return XML(strg)

and it can be used with the following widget construction:

``
name:aggregator
feeds:http://rss.cbc.ca/lineup/topstories.xml,http://rss.cbc.ca/lineup/health.xml,http://www.dpreview.com/feeds/news.xml
max_entries:4
``:widget