google-reader

Google Reader API Unread Count

Does Google Reader have an API and if so, how can I get the count of the number of unread posts for a specific user knowing their username and password? ...

Can I get statistics on RSS readership?

Is there any way to get numbers on how many people are reading an RSS feed? My understanding of the way feed readers work (e.g. Google Reader) is that they check the feed periodically, cache it, and serve the cached copy to whoever asks for it until it's refreshed - which would imply that there's no way to get reliable numbers on readers...

How does Google Reader get every item in an RSS feed?

Slashdot's RSS feed is http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot. If I download the XML file directly, I only get a few of the posts from today. However, if I subscribe to the feed in Google Reader, and keep scrolling down in their "infinite scroll" interface, it seems like I can get an arbitrary number of Slashdot posts from the past --...

How to skip known entries when syncing with Google Reader?

Hi, for writing an offline client to the Google Reader service I would like to know how to best sync with the service. There doesn't seem to be official documentation yet and the best source I found so far is this: http://code.google.com/p/pyrfeed/wiki/GoogleReaderAPI Now consider this: With the information from above I can download ...

How do I use xml to linq when I don't have the Google Reader Atom Schema?

I am working on a small widget for BlogEngine.Net. My widget is going to take a person's shared items atom feed and print the title, website url, date, and atom url. To complete this task, I have begun to use Linq and XML. Here is the problem. The atom feed Google Reader uses is located in the source element, which has an attribute ...

How to read all shared google reader feeds by code?

I share a lot of feeds on my google reader, i want some code using asp.net to read all these feeds and put in a page, may be with paging because feeds are too much. Any one know how to do so?, or if there is a tool for that ...

API to query Google Reader "shares" for a blog post

Is there an API (official or unofficial) that for a given blog post, lets me see how many people have shared it/starred it on Google Reader? I subscribe to a particular blog which is a bit too prolific for my reading habits, so I'd like to produce a new feed which only includes the posts which have reached a certain crowd-sourced thresho...

Google Reader Shared Tags

Hi, In Google Reader Shared items, I would like to get tags for each shared item. The shared items "See your shared items page in a new window." / RSS feed for Google Reader Shared items does not contain tags associated with the entry. How can this be retrieved (even through unofficial api is fine)? I found this api which talks about g...

Adding Notes Using Google Reader's API

Does anyone know how to add a note using Google Reader's API? In looking at some of their code, I've noticed that it might have something to do with the "/reader/api/0/item/edit" URL, but I can't find this documented anywhere. ...

can't add yahoo pipes to google reader

for some reason the feed won't load anything when I add it to google reader. The pipe is very simple, consists of 2 filters only. Runs fine in yahoo pipes itself, just will not be found in google reader when I attempt to fetch. Anyone seen this before? ...

Why am I getting a 401 (Unauthorized) error when POSTing to Google Reader API?

I'm trying to interface with the Google Reader (undocumented/unofficial) API using information from this page. My first step is to get a SID and token, which works fine, but I can't seem to POST anything without getting a 401 error. Here is the code I'm using to get my SID and token: static string getSid() { HttpWebRequest...

How do I set the location for the link in the title of a google reader subscription

I've got an atom feed in my application that's build using atom_feed, and it's working, except that when the feed is subscribed to in Google Reader, the link it uses for the title of the subscription is pointing to the wrong URL. I tried specifying the root_url parameter as such: atom_feed(:root_url => 'http://link.to/proper.page') do ...

How to mark items read with google reader API?

I've been working on a client for google reader. Everything works fine, except that I can't edit entries to add tags such as "starred" and "read." The instructions at code.google.com/p/pyrfeed/wiki/GoogleReaderAPI and www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2005/12/google-reader-api.html seem to be outdated. What's more odd is that I've been inspectin...

Retrieving a Single Post From Google Reader

I'm working on a Google Reader project that lists posts from a feed on a page. From that page I would like to link to a new page that displays the contents of the selected post. I see the id of the post is tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/1bf4b488adad6f1a but I don't see a call that I can use to directly retrieve it's contents. Does ...

[PHP] Google Reader Unread Count

I wrote this function to get the unread count of google reader items. function GetUnread($sid) { $url = "http://www.google.com/reader/api/0/unread-count?all=true&output=xml"; $msg = urldecode($msg); $msg = stripslashes($msg); $msg = urlencode($msg); $url = $url . $msg; $purl = parse_url($url); $uri = $pu...

Retrieving Google Reader stats for RSS feed and items

I would like to programmatically retrieve Google Reader's feed stats for my own site's RSS feed. In particular, I'd like to get the "liked" count, to incorporate it into scoring feed items. Any idea how to do this? ...

google reader json image

i'm using json to read shared google reader items. But item not contain image link. only contain [image: imagename] on content field . How can get image url? ...

How do I mark an item as read with google reader api (using python)

I use the following python function to mark an item as read in google reader, but it always returns error HTTPErrors: HTTP 401: Unauthorized: def mark_as_read(SID, entryid): token = get_token(SID) mark_as_read_url = 'http://www.google.com/reader/api/0/edit-tag' header = {'Content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencod...

Why do only certain feeds get recovered from google reader?

I want to parse the results of a public google reader feed of mine. I am writing an app in gwt and up to this point I had been following an example with the line: String gdata = "http://www.google.com/base/feeds/snippets?alt=json-in-script&callback="; The feed is retrieved, public void handle(JavaScriptObject jso) { JSO...

Import OPML subscriptions (file) to Google Reader manually

I have a huge (5,000+ feeds) OPML file which freezes and crashes my browser when I try uploading it to my Google Reader account using the following instructions: Login to Google Reader Click Your Subscription Click the More Actions dropdown Select Import Browse for your OPML file Click Open Click Upload You will see ...