Exporting Comments as WXR

The WXR feed is an XML document that contains the item upon which people commented as well as the comments. The Disqus WXR feed is a superset of the the typical RSS feed, and therefore works very much like a typical Django syndication feed.

Create a ContribCommentsWxrFeed Subclass

ContribCommentsWxrFeed exports django.contrib.comments for a set of items. This example exports comments to entries of a fictional blogging app.

from disqus.wxr_feed import ContribCommentsWxrFeed
from coolblog.models import Entry

class EntryWxrFeed(ContribCommentsWxrFeed):
    link = "/"

    def items(self):
        return Entry.objects.all()

    def item_pubdate(self, item):
        return item.pub_date

    def item_description(self, item):
        return item.content

All WxrFeed Attributes

For a full explanation of how you can define these attributes, see Django’s syndication documentation.

title_template or item_title

If title_template exists, the template is rendered with obj and site in the context, otherwise item_title is used.

This attribute becomes the <title> element.

description_template or item_description

If description_template exists, the template is rendered with obj and site in the context, otherwise item_description is used.

This attribute becomes the <content:encoded> element.

item_pubdate

When the item was published.

The attribute becomes the <wp:post_date_gmt> element.

item_guid

A unique identifier for this item. By default it is the item’s content type name and the item’s id, separated by an underscore (_). This allows for exporting comments on several different things without id collisions.

This attribute becomes the <dsq:thread_identifier> element.

item_comment_status

Can people comment on this item? One of either open or closed.

This attribute becomes the <wp:comment_status> element.

item_comments

Return a list of comments for the given item. All comment attributes are mapped based on the attributes below.

comment_id

The unique identifier for this comment.

This attribute becomes the <wp:comment_id> element.

comment_user_id

The unique identifier for the commenting user.

This attribute becomes the <dsq:id> element.

comment_avatar

The url to the commenting user’s avatar

This attribute becomes the <dsq:avatar> element.

comment_user_name

The name of the commenting user.

This attribute becomes the <wp:comment_author> element.

comment_user_email

The email of the commenting user.

This attribute becomes the <wp:comment_author_email> element.

comment_user_url

The commenting user’s URL.

This attribute becomes the <wp:comment_author_url> element.

comment_ip_address

The commenting user’s IP address.

This attribute becomes the <wp:comment_author_IP> element.

comment_submit_date

The date and time when the comment was submitted.

This attribute becomes the <wp:comment_date_gmt> element.

comment_comment

The text of the content

This attribute becomes the <wp:comment_content> element.

comment_is_approved

The site moderators have approved this comment for public display. 1 for yes, and 0 for no.

This attribute becomes the <wp:comment_approved> element.

comment_parent

The id of the comment in which this comment is responding.

This attribute becomes the <wp:comment_parent> element.