Mike Pirnat

Robert Kern asked me to share my Atomisator configuration for the Unified Python Planet. So, here it is:

[atomisator]
 
# sources
sources = 
    rss http://www.planetpython.org/rss20.xml 
    rss http://planet.python.org/rss10.xml
 
# filters
# "doublons" is French for "duplicates" --  this is what de-dups the feed
filters =
	doublons
 
# enhancers
# I'm not using any, just leave this blank (default)
enhancers =
 
# outputs
outputs =
    rss /home2/mpirnat/webapps/pirnatwp/static/unified_python_planet.xml "http://feeds2.feedburner.com/UnifiedPythonPlanet" "Unified Python Planet" "A uniqued union of the Official and Unofficial Python planet feeds.  Generated by Atomisator FTW!" 
 
# database
database = sqlite:///atomisator/unified_python_planet.db

The example configuration files that come with Atomisator are really good at illustrating how you would use them; I’ve omitted the explanatory comments from my example, but they’re in the examples and will point you in the right direction. Thanks again to Tarek for this very handy tool!

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Good news, everyone!

After a couple days of playing Twitter tag with Tarek Ziade, we finally met up for lunch at PyCon, where, in addition to having a lovely conversation, he was kind enough to give me a personal tour of his Atomisator framework for data aggregation.

Atomisator is much savvier than Yahoo Pipes at things like removing duplicates and not mangling content, so I’ve kicked Pipes to the curb and hooked up the Unified Python Planet feed to my Atomisator output.

What this means for you, lucky reader, is that everyone who subscribes to the Unified Python Planet should not only stop getting duplicates, but, more importantly, have legible code samples directly in the feed. (It’s okay if you need to take a moment to process this joyous news. It makes me pretty damn happy.)

Please let me know if you experience any flakiness with the new, improved feed.

I want to give major, major thanks to Tarek! Atomisator is really well suited to this purpose, as well as some other stuff I’m now curious to tinker with.

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