Planet (software)
{{Short description|Feed aggregator application}}
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{{Infobox software
| name = Planet
| latest release version = 2.0
| latest_release_date = {{release date and age|2006|07|26}}
| programming language = Python
| license = Python License
| genre = Feed aggregator
| website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20051029095046/http://www.planetplanet.org/ planetplanet.org (archive)]
}}
Planet is a feed aggregator that runs on a web server. It creates pages with entries from the original feeds in chronological order, most recent entries first.
Etymology
In online media a planet is a feed aggregator application designed to collect posts from the weblogs of members of an internet community and display them on a single page.{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}}
History
Planet was written in Python and maintained by Jeff Waugh and Scott James Remnant.
There are several successors:{{When|date=January 2020}} Venus - started by Sam Ruby,{{Cite web|url=http://intertwingly.net/code/venus/docs/config.html|title=Venus Configuration|website=intertwingly.net|access-date=2020-01-11}} Pluto - started by hackNY,{{Citation|last=Mukerjee|first=Aditya|title=GitHub - ChimeraCoder/pluto: Pluto is not a Planet|date=2019-04-03|url=https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/pluto|access-date=2020-01-11}} a second project also named [https://github.com/feedreader Pluto] by Gerald Bauer,{{Cite web|url=http://feedreader.github.io/|title=Pluto Planet Guide (Book Edition)|website=feedreader.github.io|access-date=2020-01-11}} and most recently Moonmoon.{{Cite web|url=https://moonmoon.org/|title=moonmoon: simple web based feed aggregator in PHP|website=moonmoon.org|access-date=2020-01-11}}
Design
Planet uses Mark Pilgrim's Universal Feed Parser to process feeds in RDF, RSS and Atom format, and Tomas Styblo's htmltmpl templating engine to output static files in any format.
Released under the Python License, Planet is free software.{{Cite web |url=http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/bzr/planet/2.0/LICENCE |title=Archived copy |access-date=2007-08-03 |archive-date=2009-04-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423005634/http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/bzr/planet/2.0/LICENCE |url-status=dead }}
Adoption
Planets are commonly associated with free and open source software projects, where they are used to collect posts from the various developers involved in projects.
See also
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References
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External links
- [http://intertwingly.net/code/venus/ Planet Venus website]
- [https://github.com/feedreader/ Planet Pluto (G Bauer) website]
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