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April 23, 2011
 

Django Shrink The Web django-stw 0.2.0 Released

Shrink The Web has announced a new API for free users using their new preview verification feature. This change required changes to my django-stw package.

The changes (lifted from the CHANGELOG.txt):

Changes to the shrinkthewebimage template tag:

  • The shrinkthewebimage template tag is NOT backward compatible with version 0.0.1. The alt argument is no longer accepted.
  • The shrinkthewebimage template tag is now intended for use by free accounts, it adds the required preview feature. It can also be used by PRO account users wanting the preview functionality.
  • The shrinkthewebimage template tag now accepts PRO key-value arguments in the same manner as the stwimage tag. This functionality is shown in theexample template but may not yet be fully implemented by the STW web service.

Changes to the stwimage template tag:

  • The stwimage can now only be used for PRO features.

Common changes:

  • Template tags now throw exceptions in their constructors instead of in the render function so configuration errors are visible during development.
  • django-stw defines a key 'lang' for the SHRINK_THE_WEB dictionary that can be passed along as a default to the preview tag. Alternately a 'lang' keyword can be supplied in each template tag invocation. django-stw defaults it to 'en'. This functionality is not yet implemented by the STW web service.

The v 0.2.0 package is available on PyPi, as a source download on github, or via git clone.

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July 11, 2010
 

Initial Release of django-stw

I have been using the free website thumbnail service from Shrink The Web on my dog agility search website Googility since I launched it. It is quick and easy to use and it adds a lot to the look of the pages.

I had created a simple Django template tag for inserting the little snippet of HTML needed by their service.

Recently they asked me to add support for their advanced features to my template tag. I used this opportunity to convert my templatetag to a Django application. This mostly makes it a lot easier to install but it also let me to bundle tests and an example template with the template tag.

I kept the existing shrinkthewebimage template tag and added a new tag called stwimage to enable the new features.

I'm hosting the example page included in the package here so you can see how the template tags work.

I've hosted the project source on github and uploaded the initial release to the CheeseShop for easy installation.

 

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July 1, 2010
 

Django Shrink The Web Template Tag Updated

I recently updated my Django template tag for simplifying the use of Shrink The Web images. They recently announced a CDN based distribution of images and they took the opportunity to modify their API.

The updated template tag is on django snippets.

The STW folks have asked be to extend my template tag with support for their PRO features. With luck I'll make that available sometime this weekend.

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