alternatives to accessing google reader with oauth?

Question

I'm really new to this oauth stuff. I want to access a user's google reader liked items feed.

This blog says that oauth doesn't work (yet) with google reader. The working way seems to be to get the user's google credentials (email, password) directly, and login directly to google. This also gives me access to the rest of their services.

Is there a better way? I sure hope so, because ClientLogin is captchad. Not to mention I don't want the user to have to trust me with their google credentials.

Answer 1

Yes, there is a way ... but you still need the user's Google credentials to access the API. On the server-side, you can GET a secure token and authentication key ... these are then passed along with GET and POST requests to the Google Reader API to do whatever you want.

Here's a fairly robust C# tutorial (read the comments to make sure you're doing authentication right).

Here's an open-source PHP library that partially implements the Google Reader API without oAuth.

Answer 2

Authentication to Google Reader with Oauth is now available.