✨ Display the latest forum entries on the user home page (#5812)

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ishtar_common/utils.py b/ishtar_common/utils.py
index 95a7ebbaa..bf64339e4 100644
--- a/ishtar_common/utils.py
+++ b/ishtar_common/utils.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # Copyright (C) 2013-2016 Étienne Loks  <etienne.loks_AT_peacefrogsDOTnet>
-
 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
 # published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
@@ -20,6 +19,7 @@
 from cairosvg import svg2png
 from csv import QUOTE_ALL
 import datetime
+import feedparser
 from functools import wraps
 from itertools import chain
 from inspect import currentframe, getframeinfo
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import locale
 import math
 import numpy
 import os
+import pytz
 import random
 import re
 import requests
@@ -2827,6 +2828,40 @@ class EachCharacterTypeValidator:
         ) + str(_("."))
 
 
+def get_news_feed():
+    cache_key = f"{settings.PROJECT_SLUG}-news_feed"
+    news_feed = cache.get(cache_key)
+    if news_feed is None:
+        news_feed = update_news_feed()
+        cache.set(cache_key, news_feed, timeout=settings.CACHE_TIMEOUT)
+    return news_feed
+
+
+def update_news_feed():
+    feed = feedparser.parse(settings.ISHTAR_FEED_URL)
+    news_feed = []
+    if "entries" in feed:
+        for entry in feed["entries"][:5]:
+            published = entry.published
+            try:
+                locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, "en_GB")
+                d = datetime.datetime.strptime(published, "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z")
+                d_aware = d.replace(tzinfo=pytz.timezone(settings.TIME_ZONE))
+                lang_code = settings.LANGUAGE_CODE.split("-")
+                lang_code = lang_code[0] + "_" + lang_code[1].upper()
+                locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, lang_code)
+                published = d_aware.strftime("%d %b %Y %H:%M")
+            except ValueError:
+                published = "&ndash;"
+            desc = f"""<div class="row">
+    <div class="col-3 date">{published}</div>
+    <div class="col-9"><a href="{entry['link']}" target="_blank">{entry['title']}</a></div>
+</div>
+"""
+            news_feed.append(desc)
+    return "".join(news_feed)
+
+
 # picked from Django 3.2 to assure 128 bites salt - should be removed on upgrade
 class Argon2PasswordHasher(BaseArgon2PasswordHasher):
     salt_entropy = 128