django-newsfeed example project
This is a example project created using the django-newsfeed package. This example project overrides the templates to use bootstrap. It also uses celery to handle newsletter delivey to the subscribers.
What is django-newsfeed?
django-newsfeed is a news curator and newsletter subscription package for django. It can be used to create a news curator website which sends newsletters to their subscribers also it can be used to add a news subscription section to your website.
checkout the package here
Handle Sending newsletter using a task queue
In this Example project we use celery, celery-beat and redis to
send emails in the background.
Gist of the project:
Celery Task
from celery.decorators import task
from newsfeed.models import Newsletter
from newsfeed.utils.send_newsletters import send_email_newsletter
@task(name="send_email_newsletter_task")
def send_email_newsletter_task(newsletters_ids=None, respect_schedule=True):
newsletters = None
if newsletters_ids:
newsletters = Newsletter.objects.filter(
id__in=newsletters_ids
)
send_email_newsletter(
newsletters=newsletters,
respect_schedule=respect_schedule
)Celery Schedule
app.conf.beat_schedule = {
'send_email_newsletter': {
'task': 'send_email_newsletter_task',
# http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/userguide/periodic-tasks.html
'schedule': crontab(minute=0, hour='*'),
}
}Admin Action override
from django.contrib import admin, messages
from newsfeed.admin import NewsletterAdmin
from newsfeed.models import Newsletter
from .tasks import send_email_newsletter_task
admin.site.unregister(Newsletter)
@admin.register(Newsletter)
class NewsletterAdmin(NewsletterAdmin):
def send_newsletters(self, request, queryset):
newsletter_ids = list(queryset.values_list('id', flat=True))
send_email_newsletter_task.delay(
newsletters_ids=newsletter_ids,
respect_schedule=False
)
messages.add_message(
request,
messages.SUCCESS,
'Sending selected newsletters(s) to the subscribers',
)Application Gif:
