Generate sitemap using Flask

It's quite easy to generate a sitemap using Flask route map. You can refer this link to see the idea how to generate a sitemap.xml. The code below is my implementation for my website.

def sitemap():
    """Generate sitemap.xml """
    pages = []
    # All pages registed with flask apps
    for rule in app.url_map.iter_rules():
        if "GET" in rule.methods and len(rule.arguments) == 0:
            pages.append(rule.rule)

    sitemap_xml = render_template('sitemap_template.xml', pages=pages)
    response = make_response(sitemap_xml)
    response.headers["Content-Type"] = "application/xml"

    return response

Add extra object to Tastypie returned json results

It's really hard to find a straight answer on the Internet. Both page1 and page2 point me to the right direction. Adding alter_list_data_to_serialize(self, request, data) function could make it work.

def alter_list_data_to_serialize(self, request, data):
    # Example iteration through data
    for item in data['object']:
        # Add extra object to it
        item.data['extra'] = 'data you want to add'
    # Return data
    return data

Be caution if you try to add extra data like this: item['extra'] = 'data you want to add', you will get error: "Bundle" objects does not support item assignment. Since item is a bundle type object, you should use Bundle.data to get access to it.

You may curious why don't I use dehydrate(self, bundle) function to do that. Because I don't know how to iterate through the bundle object.

Fetch blogs from Blogger

First, you need to get the Blogger's api-key. login to code.google.com/apis/console and choose Services, then click Blogger API v3 request access. Fill out the request form. Wait until you get the api-key. Once you get the reply email and if Google grant you the API Key, then go back to Google APIs Console, follow the activate instruction in the email. After you activate the service, you will find the API Key in the API Access.
Use python-requests to fetch the data from your blog would be very easy. You can find my implementation on fan-zhang.appspot.com/blog.

Looks like every time when you create the blog, the blogID will show up at the address bar. However, once you publish the blog, the blogID disappear.

How to find blogID after it's published?
I think the easiest way is go to the dashboard and then click Posts, choose the blog you want to get its ID, click Edit. The blogID will show up at the address bar.

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