Last I checked there was no official API and to talk to google about
sharing an item you need to know google's id for it -- but I could be
missing something obvious.
For someone who wants to solve a fun puzzle, figure out how to go from
a feed item's identifier to google's identifier. For example given
the item with id "http://xkcd.com/554"; in full, can we compute that
google wants to call that "tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/
1a9e8d1e76a9454f" ?
Vice versa looks a bit easier since they preserve the original id in
their own representation of the item. If you look at google's
representation for xkcd (http://www.google.com/reader/atom/feed/http://xkcd.com/rss.xml
)
you will see that the items are identified like this:
<id gr:original-id="http://xkcd.com/554/";>tag:google.com,2005:reader/
item/1a9e8d1e76a9454f</id>
Figuring this out would possibly allow other integrations like marking
as read... Some unofficial API details can be found here:
http://code.google.com/p/pyrfeed/wiki/GoogleReaderAPI
- Luke
On Mar 11, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Joshua Bronson wrote:
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Randall Leeds
<[email protected]> wrote:
Side note: A Google authorization might be all we need to add a
'Share on GReader' button (the lack of which is a barrier to entry
for at least a few of my friends).
I've started a ticket for google reader integration at http://trac.openplans.org/melkjug/ticket/387
and mentioned adding it as another service to share via. Feel free
to add more ideas to the ticket if you have any!
