Officially Lucky

Just a friendly (ho!) update on some of the things I’ve added to my FriendFeed Django application, django-friendly recently. I needed a way to pull out all the media from an entry. As I mentioned in my original post, getting at that stuff was a nasty mess of object attributes in your templates, so I set out to fix that.

To that end I’ve created a few media-related tags. The first is get_friendfeed_media_list

get_friendfeed_media_list

This is very straightforward as it works just like comments and likes. You might use it in this manner (see second line):

{% get_friendfeed_media_list for [friendfeed_id] as [varname] (limit) %}

 ...
{% for entry in object_list %}
{% get_friendfeed_media_list for entry.ff_id as media %}
{% if media %}
  <dd class="media">
  {% for m in media %}
  {% ifequal entry.service.ff_id 'youtube' %}
    {% oembed 160x120 %}{{ entry.link }}{% endoembed %}
  {% else %}
  <a href="{{ entry.link }}">
    <img src="{{ m.mediathumbnail_set.all.0.url }}"/>
  </a>
  {% endifequal %}
  {% endfor %}
  </dd>
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
...

In some instances you might want to just grab the first thumbnail of the first media object associated with an entry. I use this a lot when displaying Flickr entries in that photo strip at the top of my site. For those instances, I’ve created a tag called get_friendfeed_first_media_thumbnail. You’d use it in this manner:

{% get_friendfeed_first_media_thumbnail for [friendfeed_id] as [varname] %}

...
{% get_friendfeed_entry_list for 'flickr' 12 as flickr_photos %}
<div class="column span-24 first last" id="photos">
    {% for photo in flickr_photos %}
        {% get_friendfeed_first_media_thumbnail for photo.ff_id as thumbnail %}
            <a href="{{ photo.link }}" rel="photo">
            <img src="{{ thumbnail.url }}" 
                width="{{ thumbnail.width }}" 
                height="{{ thumbnail.height }}">
            </a>
    {% endfor %}
</div>
...

I’m thinking about adding some other tags, but so far, I’m not sure. I think I’ll let these percolate for a little while and see if I need any new ones.