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django-syncr: Synchronize Django with the web

I finally had a little bit of time to package up and document a small project I've been working on. I've just posted my django-syncr application to Google Code. See the link for installation and usage instructions.

This is a Django app inspired by the scripts I use to sync my blog with various web services. It has two parts: 1) the Django backend models and 2) utilities to synchronize these models via web APIs at several major services. These include: flickr, youtube, del.icio.us, and twitter. I'm hoping to add ma.gnolia soon.

Django-syncr could be useful for blogs, tumblelogs, or other applications. What I do is write cron jobs to periodically sync-up with my service accounts. For example:

from syncr.app.tweet import TwitterSyncr
t = TwitterSyncr('jesselegg', 'password')

t.syncTwitterUserTweets('jesselegg')
t.syncFriends('jesselegg')

Then in a Django template I could do things like this:

{% for friend in twitter_friends %}
{{ friend.screen_name }} from {{ friend.location }}
{% endfor %}

Ditto for flickr, del.icio.us and Youtube.

Check it out and let me know what you think. Documentation of all the methods available in the syncr.app utilities is available here.