Django Cast¶

Just another blogging / podcasting package

Documentation¶

The full documentation is at https://django-cast.readthedocs.io.

Installation Screencast¶

Quickstart¶

Install Django Cast:

pip install django-cast

Add django-cast and some dependencies to your INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    "django.contrib.sites",
    "imagekit",
    "ckeditor",
    "ckeditor_uploader",
    "crispy_forms",
    "django_filters",
    "rest_framework",
    "rest_framework.authtoken",
    "filepond.apps.FilepondConfig",
    "cast.apps.CastConfig",
    "watson",
    "fluent_comments",
    "threadedcomments",
    "django_comments",
    ...
)

SITE_ID = 1

Add required settings:

# CKEditor
CKEDITOR_UPLOAD_PATH = "uploads/ckeditor/"
CKEDITOR_IMAGE_BACKEND = "pillow"
AWS_QUERYSTRING_AUTH = False
X_FRAME_OPTIONS = "SAMEORIGIN"
CKEDITOR_CONFIGS = {
        "default": {
        "removePlugins": "stylesheetparser",
        "allowedContent": True,
        "enterMode": 2,
    },
}

# REST
REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    # Use Django's standard django.contrib.auth permissions,
    # or allow read-only access for unauthenticated users.
    "DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES": (
        "rest_framework.authentication.SessionAuthentication",
        "rest_framework.authentication.TokenAuthentication",
    )
}

# django imagekit
IMAGEKIT_DEFAULT_CACHEFILE_STRATEGY="imagekit.cachefiles.strategies.Optimistic"

# Comments
COMMENTS_APP = 'fluent_comments'
FLUENT_COMMENTS_EXCLUDE_FIELDS = ('email', 'url', "title")
CAST_COMMENTS_ENABLED = True

Add Django Cast’s URL patterns:

from django.urls import include, path, re_path

from rest_framework.documentation import include_docs_urls
from rest_framework.authtoken import views as authtokenviews


urlpatterns = [
    ...
    # Cast urls
    path("api/api-token-auth/", authtokenviews.obtain_auth_token),
    path("docs/", include_docs_urls(title="API service")),
    path("ckeditor/", include("ckeditor_uploader.urls")),
    # Uploads
    path("uploads/", include("filepond.urls", namespace="filepond")),
    # Cast
    path("cast/", include("cast.urls", namespace="cast")),
    # Threadedcomments
    re_path(r'^cast/comments/', include('fluent_comments.urls')),
    ...
]

The api token auth urls and the docs urls are both necessary to provide api endpoints with the right namespace. The django-filepond app is used to dispatch uploads to the right media models.

Features Overview¶

Support for responsive images / video / audio media objects
Use django template syntax for posts allowing you to use custom template tags for galleries etc. for example
Good looking file uploads via filepond
Chaptermarks for podcast Episodes
Fulltext search via django-watson
Faceted navigation via django-filter
Comments for posts via django-contrib-comments, django-threadedcomments and django-fluent-comments

Running Tests¶

Does the code actually work?

source <YOURVIRTUALENV>/bin/activate
(myenv) $ python runtests.py tests

Credits¶

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