rss-reader-api

RSS Reader API written in Django Rest. This app provides a REST API using the Django Rest Framework that aggregates articles from RSS feeds. This will allow you to create a system of news delivery that is appropriate for you.

How To Use It

As a user you will be able to save RSS feeds from your favorite sites and have all of the data aggregated into a single news feed. You can take it one step further and set categories for each feed and filter the articles based on category. Categories are not required, but add the ability to customize your feed even more.

Deployment

Deploying the RSS Reader requires a few environment variables to be set.

Required Environment Variables

• DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS - Django only allows access based on predefined hosts. Be sure to add your FQDN when ready for production. localhost is included by default On App Platform set to ${APP_DOMAIN}

• APP_PLAT_ROUTE = <URL_FOR_YOUR_API> ex: /api

Database Env Vars Can also use Database URL on App Platform

DATABASE_URL = ${db.DATABASE_URL}

or use this

• NAME - Database name
• USER - Database user to auth with
• PASSWORD - Database password to auth with
• HOST - Database host
• PORT - Database port

Code that uses these env vars

    DATABASES = {
        "default": {
            "ENGINE": "django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2",
            "NAME": os.environ.get("DB_NAME"),
            "USER": os.environ.get("DB_USER"),
            "PASSWORD": os.environ.get("DB_PASSWORD"),
            "HOST": os.environ.get("DB_HOST"),
            "PORT": os.environ.get("DB_PORT"),
            "OPTIONS": {"sslmode": "require"},
        }
    }

Optional/Development Environment Variables

• DJANGO_SECRET_KEY - If you don't provide a secret key then all cookies will be invalidated everytime the server reboots. If you don't set this one will be generated everytime you start the server
• DEVELOPMENT_MODE - This determines whether or not to use a local sqlite db if True or a remote Postgres DB if False. Defaults to False
• DEBUG - Set's Django into debug mode for more verbose error messaging. Defaults to False.

Deploy to App Platform

To deploy this API to App Platform visit the Deploy Spec GitHub Repo

API Spec

All examples are using httpie. If you haven't checked it out you should.

Below are all of the public endpoints currently available.

Note: - All API methods end with a /. If you attempt to call an API method without this you will receive a 404.

POST /login/

Retrieve a users API token

Parameters

• username - Your username
• password - Your Password

Example

http POST https://example.api/obtain-auth-token/ username=user password=pass

Returns

{
    "token": "YOUR_API_TOKEN"
}

GET /articles/

Fetch articles from your news sources.

Query Parameters

• category (optional) - filter the results based on your categories. This can be a single value or a comma separated list. Note that categories are case sensitive.
• count (optional) - The total number of articles to fetch. Default set to 10
• feed (optional) - The specific feed to get articles from. Use the feed id to specify.

Example

http https://example.api/articles/?category=Tech&count=10

Returns 200

[
    {
        "categories": [
            "Tech"
        ],
        "date": "DATE",
        "feed_name": "FEED_AS_SPECIFIED_BY_YOU",
        "link": "LINK",
        "summary": "SUMMARY TEXT",
        "title": "TITLE"
    }
    ...
]

GET /feeds/

Returns a list of all of the feeds currently being aggregated.

Query Parameters

• category (optional) - filter the results based on your categories. This can be a single value or a comma separated list. Note that categories are case sensitive.

Example

http https://example.api/feeds?category=Tech

Returns 200

[
    {
        "categories": [],
        "id": 1,
        "is_visible": true,
        "name": "Hacker News",
        "url": "https://hnrss.org/frontpage"
    },
    ...
]

POST /feeds/ - Auth Required

Add an RSS feed. Articles from this feed will be aggregated into the others

Parameters

• name - The name you wish to give this source
• url - The URL of the RSS feed
• categories - The category(ies) to associate the feed with. This can be a single category or a list of categories spearated by a ,
• is_visible - Whether or not you want news from this source to be visible (optional)

Example

http POST https://example.api/feeds/ 'Authorization: Token '$TOKEN name="Mason Egger's Website" url="https://mason.dev/index.html" category="Tech,Python"

Returns 200

{
    "categories": [
        "Tech",
        "Python"
    ],
    "id": 5,
    "is_visible": true,
    "name": "My Feed",
    "url": "https://demo.shark.codes"
}

Returns 400

{
    "errors": {
        "name": [
            "This field is required."
        ],
        "url": [
            "This field is required."
        ]
        "category": [
            "Invalid catogory CATEGORY."
        ]
    }
}

PUT /feeds/ - Auth Required

Update an RSS feed.

Parameters

• id - The ID of the category
• name (optional) - The name you wish to give this source
• url (optional) - The URL of the RSS feed
• is_visible (optional) - Whether or not you want news from this source to be visible
• category (optional) - The category you want to associate with this feed. This can be a single category or a list of categories spearated by a ,

Example

http PUT https://example.api/feeds/ 'Authorization: Token '$TOKEN id=16 name="Awesome Blog" category="Tech"

Returns

{
    "info": {
        "categories": [
            "Tech"
        ],
        "id": 16,
        "is_visible": true,
        "name": "dog",
        "url": "https://mason.dev/"
    },
}

DELETE /feeds/<int:feed_id> - Auth Required

Delete an RSS feed. Articles from this feed will no longer appear.

URI Parameters

• feed_id - The ID of the feed to delete

Example

http DELETE http://localhost:8000/feeds/<FEED_ID>/ 'Authorization: Token '$TOKEN

Returns 200

{
    "message": "Feed was successfully deleted",
}

Returns 404

{
    "message": "Class with id 5 does not exist",
}

GET /categories/

Returns a list of all of the categories currently available

Parameters

None

Example

http https://example.api/categories

Returns 200

[
    {
        "id": 1,
        "name": "Tech"
    },
    ...
]

POST /categories/ - Auth Required

Add a a category. RSS Feeds can be tagged with categories to aide with filtering.

Parameters

• name - The name you wish to give this category

Example

http POST https://example.api/categories/ 'Authorization: Token '$TOKEN name="Sports"

Returns 200

{
    "id": 3,
    "name": "Sports"
}

Returns 400

{
    "errors": {
        "name": [
            "This field is required."
        ],
    }
}

PUT /category/ - Auth Required

Update a category.

Parameters

• id - The ID of the category
• name - The name you wish to give this category

Example

http PUT https://example.api/category/ 'Authorization: Token '$TOKEN id=3 name="Sportz"

Returns 200

{
    "id": 3,
    "name": "Sportz"
}

DELETE /category/<int:category_id> - Auth Required

Delete a category. RSS Feeds will no longer be associated with this category

URI Parameters

• feed_id - The ID of the category to delete

Example

http DELETE http://localhost:8000/category/<CATEGORY_ID>/ 'Authorization: Token '$TOKEN

Returns 200

{
    "message": "Category was successfully deleted",
}

Returns 404

{
    "message": "Category with id 3 does not exist"
}

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Create a Secret key

from django.core.management.utils import get_random_secret_key

print(get_random_secret_key())