Adam, Thanks for the reply. What the Lookup endpoint gives us that the Find doesn't, is the ability to find the RSS feed for a given URL. The Find endpoint doesn't take a URL as a search parameters, however that's my exact use case. What's the Feed for a URL?
The Lookup endpoint actually does it very well. For example: Vimeo has many RSS feeds in its header. One might assume that the first one in the list is the most valuable one to have. The Feed/Lookup endpoint returns the RSS feed for videos as the one feed. This happens to be, at least from our perspective, the best choice for an RSS feed. So there is some smart decision making done behind the scenes and it isn't simply just reading and parsing the HTML headers.... this is the what I find valuable about this endpoint. Is there another endpoint in the Google API that provides access to this info? Regards, Paul On Monday, June 10, 2013 1:30:24 PM UTC-4, Adam Feldman wrote: > > Hi Paul, > > We removed the documentation a couple years ago because it's generally not > a good solution, compared with Find Feed -- it doesn't work as well and is > usually not what people actually need. It received *very* low usage by > only a few individuals. > > No announcement was made because we didn't remove the feature, so as to > not impact the few existing users, but the documentation was pulled because > we felt that it didn't add significant value for developers building > something new on the API. Thanks for pointing out that we missed removing > the Playground sample - I will get that corrected. > > I recommend steering away from the Lookup Feed feature, but I can assure > you that the Feed API itself was not impacted by the recent Google Reader > announcement. As in the past, we will continue to post explicitly whenever > we have news about changes to this or other APIs. > > Thanks, > Adam > > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Paul Kist <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> From the code playground, it looks like lookupFeed is still supported, >> but again, it's not documented. Either it's missing from the documentation >> or something else is going on. But I haven't found anything out there, >> about this particular endpoint no longer being supported by Google. No >> announcement or warning..... >> >> >> On Monday, June 10, 2013 9:35:30 AM UTC-4, Paul Kist wrote: >>> >>> Just giving this a bump. If anyone has any information regarding this >>> endpoint please advise. The main concern, is this endpoint tied to the >>> Google Reader API? If so, it's going to be going away. Any information >>> on this would be great, thank you. >>> >>> On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 11:01:32 AM UTC-4, Paul Kist wrote: >>>> >>>> There are references all over the web to the */lookup* endpoint on the >>>> the Google Feed API, but there is nothing documented in the official >>>> documentation. >>>> >>>> e.g. https://ajax.googleapis.**com/ajax/services/feed/lookup?** >>>> v=1.0&q=http://www.digg.com<https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/feed/lookup?v=1.0&q=http://www.digg.com> >>>> >>>> Returns: >>>> >>>> { >>>> >>>> - responseData: >>>> { >>>> - query: "http://www.digg.com";, >>>> - url: >>>> "http://www.digg.com/rss/**top.rss<http://www.digg.com/rss/top.rss> >>>> " >>>> }, >>>> - responseDetails: null, >>>> - responseStatus: 200 >>>> >>>> } >>>> >>>> Is this not a supported endpoint? >>>> >>> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> To view this message on the web, visit >> >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-ajax-search-api/5f727330-0f88-4268-a4e0-d08aea01edb8%40googlegroups.com?hl=en_US >> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google AJAX APIs" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] To view this message on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-ajax-search-api/5aff74ad-d301-473c-9948-eaa8a138aab3%40googlegroups.com?hl=en_US For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
