Comments on: Using the Google Reader API – Part 2

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:10:20 +0000

Brilliant post Martin, thanks for taking the time to do this.

I have one question though; how would I retrieve a list of read posts? I’ve tried using the reading-list and can get it to return all unread posts, but not all read ones.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Mark

By: akaii

akaii — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:33:48 +0000

What I can’t seem to figure out from your documentation, is how to derive the relationship between folders and feeds.

There are ways to get the items that belong to a particular group/folder/tag/label, and you can check the item data to find out all the groups it belongs to, but… how can you tell which feed belongs to which folder? Considering that the viewer UI for Google Reader lets you sort feeds into folders, there should be a way to do this, shouldn’t there?

Is there a way to either get the folders that a feed belongs to, or to get a list of feeds that belong to a folder?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:49:12 +0000

Great work, Martin! It’s been a big help. Do you know if it’s possible to grab a user’s profile picture using their google reader UID? I can’t quite figure out the trick. The reader UID does not seem to match to anything found in the google contact data, which was my last resort.

By: Martin Doms : Using the Google Reader API – Part 3

Martin Doms : Using the Google Reader API – Part 3 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:09:23 +0000

[...] the client argument, which is the same as the client argument seen in all of the API calls in Part II of this series – just use a unique string identifying your own software package if in [...]

By: Martin Doms

Martin Doms — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:29:40 +0000

You’re quite welcome, thanks for visiting

By: Pat Murphy

Pat Murphy — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:04:54 +0000

This is WONDERFUL. You have solved many problems I had with the outdated information found elsewhere on the web. Thank you so much for taking the time to post this!

By: kojiishi

kojiishi — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:02:18 +0000

This link
http://code.google.com/p/pyrfeed/wiki/GoogleReaderAPI
gives answeres to some of your questions.
Both this and your page are the great resources and are the great help to me. Thanks!

By: Martin Doms

Martin Doms — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:27:11 +0000

Ah yes thanks for reminding me David, I’ll make a note of that in the article.

By: David Green

David Green — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:54:40 +0000

To answer my own question: it seems that the unread-count call returns feeds and labels together. Labels are passed back with an id as follows:

“user/-/label/Android”

By: David Green

David Green — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:49:14 +0000

Great article!

Do you know the API for getting the list of folders (labels)?