django_slideshare is a simple django app that helps you embed http://www.slideshare.net presentations into your django templates.

• Install the app into your django project
• In the admin panel, create a new instance of a Slideshare.
• The only required parameter is the url of a particular slideshare presentation (e.g., http://www.slideshare.net/rashmi/slideshare-zeitgeist-2009). Upon saving the instance, django_slideshare will pull the rest of the relevant information (title, author, embed code, width, height) directly from slideshare. You can, of course, override any of these values with your own.

• BeautifulSoup for parsing the slideshare url. In the future, we'll remove this dependency by implementing the slideshare developer API, rather than scrapping it from the site.

• add a 404 page for when the requested presentation doesn't exist
• use slideshare slug as another URI for the presentation
• Proper package/dependency management using pip, or whatever else the cool kids are using these days
• See if it is possible to use generic views, instead of writing my own
• Use the slideshare developer API, instead of storing the embed code and scraping the presentation metadata from the url
• Subscribe to a user, and automatically discover presentations from that user (with filters/querying)
• Refactor to create a slideshare python binding: perhaps fork/contribute to PySlideShare