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In computing, Planet is a FOSS web feed aggregator written in Python and maintained by Jeff Waugh and Scott James Remnant. It is software that runs on a web server, downloading web feeds and aggregating their content together. It then creates web pages with entries from the original feeds in chronological order, most recent entries first.

It uses Mark Pilgrim's Universal Feed Parser to process feeds in RDF, RSS and Atom format, and Tomas Styblo's HTML::Template templating engine to output static files in any format.

The concept behind Planet is becoming broader than the original application as other similar projects appear, implemented with the use of other programming languages; examples include MetaPlanet, written in PHP.

Aggregated sites powered by Planet are also called "planets" and often contain the "Planet" moniker in their names. These planets are often built from the weblogs of members of a specific group or clique, e.g. "Planet Debian", created from the feeds of weblogs by people active in the Debian community.