The low-level framework

Behind the scenes, the high-level RSS framework uses a lower-level framework for generating feeds' XML. This framework lives in a single module: django/utils/feedgenerator.py. You use this framework on your own, for lower-level feed generation. You can also create custom feed generator subclasses for use with the feed_type Feed option.

SyndicationFeed classes

The feedgenerator module contains a base class:

• django.utils.feedgenerator.SyndicationFeed

and several subclasses:

• django.utils.feedgenerator.RssUserland091Feed

• django.utils.feedgenerator.Rss201rev2Feed

• django.utils.feedgenerator.Atom1Feed

Each of these three classes knows how to render a certain type of feed as XML. They share this interface:

SyndicationFeed.__init__()

Initialize the feed with the given dictionary of metadata, which applies to the entire feed. Required keyword arguments are:

• title

• link

• description

There's also a bunch of other optional keywords:

• language

• author_email

• author_name

• author_link...