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Django syndication framework: prevent appending SITE_ID to the links

According to the documentation here: https://djangobook.com/syndication-feed-framework/

If link doesn’t return the domain, the syndication framework will insert the domain of the current site, according to your SITE_ID setting

However, I'm trying to generate a feed of magnet: links. The framework doesn't recognize this and attempts to append the SITE_ID, such that the links end up like this (on localhost):

<link>http://localhost:8000magnet:?xt=...</link>

Is there a way to bypass this?

Solution

  • I did end up digging through the syndication source code and finding no easy way to override it and did some hacky monkey patching. (Unfortunately I did it before I saw the answers posted here, all of which I assume will work about as well as this one)

    Here's how I did it:

    def item_link(self, item):
    # adding http:// means the internal get_feed won't modify it
    return "http://"+item.magnet_link

def get_feed(self, obj, request):
    # hacky way to bypass the domain handling
    feed = super().get_feed(obj, request)
    for item in feed.items:
        # strip that http:// we added above
        item['link'] = item['link'][7:]
    return feed

    For future readers, this was as of Django 2.0.1. Hopefully in a future patch they allow support for protocols like magnet.