On my other personal website, briancaffey.com, I have a blog. The content on that blog has mostly mirrored what I put on this github pages site, briancaffey.github.io. I want to display my most recent blog posts from briancaffey.github.io on briancaffey.com, and to do this I will be using the RSS feed that comes with a Jekyll site. This should be pretty simple, we are going to use the requests librrary, as well as the feedparser library.

Here are some docs on how to use feedparser, it is very simple.

First, install it with:

pip install feedparser

Here's the setup that I will be using in utility a function that will be imported to views.py and called in the home() function that renders the homepage for briancaffey.com:

import feedparser

def get_blog_posts(number_of_posts):
    url = "http://briancaffey.github.io/feed"
    feed = feedparser.parse(url)
    posts = feed['items'][:number_of_posts]
    return posts

Next, in views.py, we just need to import the function, call it with the number of articles we want to show, save the returned value to a variable and then pass that to context:

from utils import get_blog_posts
def home(request):
    ...
    posts = get_blog_posts(4)

    context = {
        ...
        'recent_posts': posts,
        ...
    }

    return render(request, 'home.html', context)

In the context, we can access the following data for each item:

That's it!