Caching RSS Feeds With feedcache

The past several years have seen a steady increase in the use of RSS and Atom feeds for data sharing. Blogs, podcasts, social networking sites, search engines, and news services are just a few examples of data sources delivered via such feeds. Working with internet services requires care, because inefficiencies in one client implementation may cause performance problems with the service that can be felt by all of the consumers accessing the same server. In this article, I describe the development of the feedcache package, and give examples of how you can use it to optimize the use of data feeds in your application.

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This article was originally published by Python Magazine in November of 2007.