Google API News
Alex Chaffee
Friends Of Google Reader API mailing list. It's a bit technical but
here's the gist, in the form of "A" from me and "M" from him:
M: We've severed the Reader/Buzz dependency, which means that shares
and comments should keep working even after Buzz goes read-only.
A: So the Google Reader UI still won't have a share button, but other
apps can use the API to share and unshare using the broadcast tag like
before?
M: Yes.
A: Likewise, the Google Reader app won't show comments or allow people
to add them, but comments will be available for API clients?
M: Yes.
(via https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fougrapi/sKclYEY7XsY/CAm6R07PNPQJ )
So it looks like the API and the Reader app truly are different
projects inside Google. (This fits the history -- reportedly Google
Reader was conceived as a proof-of-concept app showing what you could
do on top of a news feed backend API.)
As I see it, this changes the landscape a little bit for those of us
trying to get back sharing and commenting inside Google Reader. We
don't have to scramble to send shared items to an outside-served feed.
.. although there's nothing wrong with that instead of or in addition
to doing it in the Reader backend too, but it's not preferred, since
it's hard technically to get all the stuff back into the outside
feeds, to wit:
* the original source and author
* the sharer
* the full text of the original item
Maybe it'll be possible to get an outside feed with that stuff in it
but so far I haven't seen a userscript that actually does that. All
the "Share" buttons I've seen -- including Google's newish "G+ Share"
button that appears in the under-item button bar isn't really Share,
but Send To.
I know this is confusing but I'm confused too, and looking for guidance.
To that end, please see my next post about Send To Sharebro.
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Alex Chaffee - al...@stinky.com
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Sanjeev Satheesh
That's great news. Apparently, "our man on the inside" is the founding member of the google reader team!
I see that you have pushed the code that makes send_to broadcast that feed item. Please excuse my n00b questions:
I was thinking of fetching the feed given the url (in the Hello! chain) Looks like your latest commit does that and adds it to the user's broadcasts. So is the send_to ready as an api? That is can we start diverting lipsumarium users' shares back to their google stream? Do we need a userscript for that? Or just simply, how do I try out the send_to now?
Thanks!
Sanjeev
