Planet Planet RSS Feed Aggregator

RSS Aggregators are used to collect multiple RSS feeds from web sites and then publish it as a logical group. Check out LinuxChix for a sample use.

Are you looking for a good RSS aggregator which can handle a large number of RSS feeds? The best aggregator I have come across is the Planet Planet Feed Reader. It is fast and has a good template system as well.

Planet uses a config.ini file for the list of feeds and various aggregation options. The actual output can be configured using *.tmpl files provided. Templates provide simple conditional statements also (TMPL_IF for example).

For this to work as an offline feed aggregator you need to be able to put the aggregator in the web server cron job. Unfortunately most of the hosting providers don’t give such a facility. If your site has fairly good traffic, an alternative is to use Pseudocron.

Note that planet aggregator requires python 2.2 or above installed on the web server. In my case I tried installing it on my server hosted by globat. I got the following error (The BSD module is broken?)

ImportError: No module named _bsddb…..