Reads, cleans and serves feeds.
Sometimes we get feeds with Unicode characters because users copy and paste from other documents. This app serves as a feed proxy to clean up characters in bad source feeds.
For instance, if this app were deployed to feedcleaner.example.org and SOURCE_DOMAIN='http://cdn-api.ooyala.com' were set in .env, a request to feedcleaner.example.org/feed1234 would clean up a feed from cdn-api.ooyala.com/feed1234.
- Flask to register and serve routes.
- Requests to fetch the remote feed.
- Unidecode to decode unicode characters.
After cloning this repo, use virtualenvwrapper to install dependencies: mkvirtualenv feed-cleaner --python=/usr/local/bin/python3.4 -r requirements.txt
In a .env file, you'll need to set a SOURCE_DOMAIN variable. The app will proxy the request route to this domain to fetch the original feed.
SOURCE_DOMAIN='http://cdn-api.ooyala.com'
Run the webserver with Flask by calling python app.py