Python

Python is a programming language and web server runtime environment used for many IndieWeb projects.

Contents 1 IndieWeb Examples 1.1 Bear 1.2 Jen Montes 1.3 Kartik Prabhu 1.4 Kyle Mahan 1.5 David Reeve 2 Libraries 2.1 Third-party Libraries 3 Projects 4 Hosting 5 See Also

IndieWeb Examples

Examples of indieweb community members who are using Python on their personal sites (alphabetical order):

Bear

Bear's uses Kaku, a Python based static site generator, to run his personal site bearlog and uses the following Python projects:

• ronkyuu
• ninka
• mf2py

Jen Montes

Jen Montes uses PISS to run her personal site, https://jenmontes.com, with help from the following Python projects:

• Eve
• ... Probably others. Too soon to tell!

Kartik Prabhu

Kartik Prabhu's personal site Parallel Transport runs on Bundle and uses the following Python IndieWeb projects:

• ronkyuu
• mf2py
• mf2util

Kyle Mahan

Kyle Mahan uses Red Wind (written in Python) to run his personal site http://kylewm.com/ with the following Python projects:

• Flask
• mf2py
• mf2util

David Reeve

David Reeve's site Lancey Space uses Red Wind with the following Python projects:

• Flask
• mf2py
• mf2util

Libraries

Generally useful libraries being developed by IndieWeb participants in Python.

• ronkyuu, a collection of tools for sending webmentions and verifying rel=me.
• webmention-tools, utilities to send webmentions and query Webmention.io
• mf2py, a microformats2 parser
  • Bleeding-edge development currently being done on Kartik's fork. Will be folded into the master in the future.
• mf2util is a microformats2-specific parsing utility. Useful for reading the relevant properties for comments and reply-contexts. Also has some special handling for date/times that converts them into Python datetime or date objects.
• ninka is a small library to handle indieauth endpoint discovery and auth token validation
• python-indieweb is an example Flask app that implements IndieAuth, webmentions, micropub-endpoint and token-endpoint.
• granary fetches and converts silo data (Facebook, Flickr, Google+, Instagram, and Twitter via their APIs) to/from ActivityStreams, microformats2 HTML and JSON, Atom, and more. Also available as a REST service.

Third-party Libraries

Non-IndieWeb-specific libraries that may still be of interest.

• Requests: By far the best way to interact with any HTML endpoint.
• BeautifulSoup: sits of top of other HTML parsing libraries (lxml or html5lib) and provides a nice interface for wading through HTML, even horribly broken HTML.
• Bleach: sanitizer and autolinker. Useful for removing dangerous code from e.g., for displaying remote content. Excludes almost everything by default.

Projects

IndieWeb projects built with Python:

• Bridgy (open source) runs on Google AppEngine
  • granary
  • oauth-dropins
  • webmention-tools
  • mf2py
• Kaku
• Red Wind
• Bundle
• Woodwind

Hosting

Python does not have PHP's ubiquity, and finding hosting can be a little bit more of a challenge. See web_hosting for more details.

• Google AppEngine (webapp, Django)
• Webfaction
• Heroku (Flask, Django)
• VPS running a WSGI server like uWSGI or gunicorn.

See Also

• language
• projects