Planet (Software)

Planet is a server-side feed reader for aggregator services, which is used for summary of various news sources on websites. This program is free software, and was originally developed in 2004 for aggregator services the Debian Linux distribution and desktop environment GNOME, the summarizing the blogs of developers on a website.

In a figurative sense, the term is generally used for websites that summarize means of a feed aggregator various news sources, especially blogs.

Description

The program was written in the Python programming language. It requires as a prerequisite the version 2.2 of this language and is as declared by the provider under the same license.

The program understands by means of the Universal Feed Parser Mark Pilgrim developed the formats such as RSS and Atom, and the Resource Description Framework (RDF). By means of htmltmpl engine are output the results as static files.

Alternative programs with similar functionality are feed Jack, Venus, Moon and Moon Plagger.

Also with the help of WordPress together with the WordPress plugin feed can be realized a planet.