Package: atomgen
##atomgen v 0.1.9=======Creates Apple Newsstand Atom Feed that is compatible with v1.2 of Atom FeedIt can also validate remote or local images based on Atomfeed specificationsNote that this is different than normal Atom Feed: [Specification](https://itunesconnect.apple.com/docs/NewsstandAtomFeedSpecification.pdf)##InstallationInstall from PyPi:pip install atomgenAtomgen is tested and used in production on Python 2.7Atomgen is compatible with Python 3.3 but has not been used in production.##Example usage>>> import datetime>>> from atomgen import AtomGenSimple>>> a=[{'id':'1','updated':datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 10, 1, 9, 53, 977342),... 'published':datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 10, 1, 10, 53, 977342),... 'summary':"This is the summary 1",'icon':"http://ccc.com/img.png"},... {'id':2,'updated':datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 9, 1, 9, 53, 977342),... 'published':datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 10, 1, 7, 53, 977342),... 'summary':"This is the summary 2",'icon':"http://ccc2.com/img2.png"}]>>> my_atom = AtomGen()>>> print my_atom.run(a, update_time=datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 10, 1, 9, 53, 977342))<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:news="http://itunes.apple.com/2011/Newsstand"><updated>2013-12-10T01:09:53Z</updated><entry><id>1</id><updated>2013-12-10T01:09:53Z</updated><published>2013-12-10T01:10:53Z</published><summary>This is the summary 1</summary><news:cover_art_icons><news:cover_art_icon size="SOURCE" src="http://ccc.com/img.png" /></news:cover_art_icons></entry><entry><id>2</id><updated>2013-12-09T01:09:53Z</updated><published>2013-12-10T01:07:53Z</published><summary>This is the summary 2</summary><news:cover_art_icons><news:cover_art_icon size="SOURCE" src="http://ccc2.com/img2.png" /></news:cover_art_icons></entry></feed>Renaming element names in the original dictionary. you need to let AtomGen know the correspondence to the default names.>>> b=[{'my_id':'1','when_updated':datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 10, 1, 9, 53, 977342),... 'when_published':datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 10, 1, 10, 53, 977342),... 'the_summary':"This is the summary 1",'myicon':"http://ccc.com/img.png"},... {'my_id':2,'when_updated':datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 9, 1, 9, 53, 977342),... 'when_published':datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 10, 1, 7, 53, 977342),... 'the_summary':"This is the summary 2",'myicon':"http://ccc2.com/img2.png"}]>>> my_atom2 = AtomGen(id="my_id",published="when_published",updated="when_updated",... summary="the_summary",icon="myicon")>>> print my_atom2.run(b, update_time=datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 10, 1, 9, 53, 977342))<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:news="http://itunes.apple.com/2011/Newsstand"><updated>2013-12-10T01:09:53Z</updated><entry><id>1</id><updated>2013-12-10T01:09:53Z</updated><published>2013-12-10T01:10:53Z</published><summary>This is the summary 1</summary><news:cover_art_icons><news:cover_art_icon size="SOURCE" src="http://ccc.com/img.png" /></news:cover_art_icons></entry><entry><id>2</id><updated>2013-12-09T01:09:53Z</updated><published>2013-12-10T01:07:53Z</published><summary>This is the summary 2</summary><news:cover_art_icons><news:cover_art_icon size="SOURCE" src="http://ccc2.com/img2.png" /></news:cover_art_icons></entry></feed>Using a dicionary of dictionaries (like a json structure) for input>>> c={1:{'updated':datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 10, 1, 9, 53, 977342),... 'published':datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 10, 1, 10, 53, 977342),... 'summary':"This is the summary 1",'icon':"http://ccc.com/img.png"},... 2:{'updated':datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 9, 1, 9, 53, 977342),... 'published':datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 10, 1, 7, 53, 977342),... 'summary':"This is the summary 2",'icon':"http://ccc2.com/img2.png"},}>>> print my_atom.run(c, update_time=datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 10, 1, 9, 53, 977342))<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:news="http://itunes.apple.com/2011/Newsstand"><updated>2013-12-10T01:09:53Z</updated><entry><id>1</id><updated>2013-12-10T01:09:53Z</updated><published>2013-12-10T01:10:53Z</published><summary>This is the summary 1</summary><news:cover_art_icons><news:cover_art_icon size="SOURCE" src="http://ccc.com/img.png" /></news:cover_art_icons></entry><entry><id>2</id><updated>2013-12-09T01:09:53Z</updated><published>2013-12-10T01:07:53Z</published><summary>This is the summary 2</summary><news:cover_art_icons><news:cover_art_icon size="SOURCE" src="http://ccc2.com/img2.png" /></news:cover_art_icons></entry></feed>Using a dicionary of dictionaries for input with custom names>>> d={'1':{'when_updated':datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 10, 1, 9, 53, 977342),... 'when_published':datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 10, 1, 10, 53, 977342),... 'the_summary':"This is the summary 1",'myicon':"http://ccc.com/img.png"},... 2:{'when_updated':datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 9, 1, 9, 53, 977342),... 'when_published':datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 10, 1, 7, 53, 977342),... 'the_summary':"This is the summary 2",'myicon':"http://ccc2.com/img2.png"},}>>> my_atom2 = AtomGen(id="my_id",published="when_published",updated="when_updated",... summary="the_summary",icon="myicon")>>> print my_atom2.run(d, update_time=datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 10, 1, 9, 53, 977342))<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:news="http://itunes.apple.com/2011/Newsstand"><updated>2013-12-10T01:09:53Z</updated><entry><id>1</id><updated>2013-12-10T01:09:53Z</updated><published>2013-12-10T01:10:53Z</published><summary>This is the summary 1</summary><news:cover_art_icons><news:cover_art_icon size="SOURCE" src="http://ccc.com/img.png" /></news:cover_art_icons></entry><entry><id>2</id><updated>2013-12-09T01:09:53Z</updated><published>2013-12-10T01:07:53Z</published><summary>This is the summary 2</summary><news:cover_art_icons><news:cover_art_icon size="SOURCE" src="http://ccc2.com/img2.png" /></news:cover_art_icons></entry></feed>This will generate exactly the same Atom feed. But it gives you the flexibility of modifying your own dictionary keys with the names you like.Automatically Validating Images>>> d={'1':{'when_updated':datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 10, 1, 9, 53, 977342),... 'when_published':datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 10, 1, 10, 53, 977342),... 'the_summary':"This is the summary 1",'myicon':"http://cdn.tennis.com/uploads/magazine/test_material/img_1024_600.png"},... 2:{'when_updated':datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 9, 1, 9, 53, 977342),... 'when_published':datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 10, 1, 7, 53, 977342),... 'the_summary':"This is the summary 2",'myicon':"http://cdn.tennis.com/uploads/magazine/test_material/img_1024_600.png"},}>>> my_atom2 = AtomGen(id="my_id",published="when_published",updated="when_updated",... summary="the_summary",icon="myicon")>>> print (my_atom2.run(d, update_time=datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 10, 1, 9, 53, 977342), validate_image=True) )http://cdn.tennis.com/uploads/magazine/test_material/img_1024_600.png validated<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:news="http://itunes.apple.com/2011/Newsstand"><updated>2013-12-10T01:09:53Z</updated><entry><id>1</id><updated>2013-12-10T01:09:53Z</updated><published>2013-12-10T01:10:53Z</published><summary>This is the summary 1</summary><news:cover_art_icons><news:cover_art_icon size="SOURCE" src="http://cdn.tennis.com/uploads/magazine/test_material/img_1024_600.png" /></news:cover_art_icons></entry><entry><id>2</id><updated>2013-12-09T01:09:53Z</updated><published>2013-12-10T01:07:53Z</published><summary>This is the summary 2</summary><news:cover_art_icons><news:cover_art_icon size="SOURCE" src="http://cdn.tennis.com/uploads/magazine/test_material/img_1024_600.png" /></news:cover_art_icons></entry></feed>##Documents* [Documentations](http://atomgen.readthedocs.org/en/latest/)##AuthorErasmose* [Github](https://github.com/erasmose)* [Linkedin](http://www.linkedin.com/in/sepehr)