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Re: Displaying a Gmail ATOM Feed In Google Reader

philcrissman — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:47:34 -0000

Nice. Simper the better.

Re: Displaying a Gmail ATOM Feed In Google Reader

KitzKikz — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:38:02 -0000

Even easier -->

No need for Magpie or Simplepie or any other php parsing & reformatting. This simply reads the feed and spits it back out. Then let Google Reader do it's job.

Re: Displaying a Gmail ATOM Feed In Google Reader

philcrissman — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:33:09 -0000

Well, even after creating the RSS feed mentioned above, I eventually found it just as easy (almost equivalent, really) to simply look in the label in gmail.

It still seems that it would be nice if you could pipe gmail feeds, or any feed requiring authentication, into your google reader, just out of principle.

Re: Displaying a Gmail ATOM Feed In Google Reader

Travis Spencer — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:39:50 -0000

I too can't believe that Google Reader can't read other Google-created secure feeds. I think it is fine that reader doesn't support authenticating to feeds, in fact, I think that is desirable. However, reader secure feeds from the same company ought to be supported IMO.

I also don't think it is a good solution to create this sort of proxy unless the info in the feed is already public. If that's the case though, a more secure approach might be to expose the data as an RSS feed at the source. In your case, perhaps you could get the owners of the bacn property (whatever that is) to expose the data in RSS directly. Long shot in many cases, I know.

Just my $0.02.

Re: Displaying a Gmail ATOM Feed In Google Reader

philcrissman — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:15:51 -0000

If you mean a downloadable file, you'd have to look up the PHP docs on file IO, I don't think it should be too hard. If you just need a feed, you don't need to do anything different; say the above file was your-url.com/bacn.php, you would just use that address, and an atom feed should be returned.

Even better might be SimplePie (http://simplepie.org/), which was not around when I wrote this and looks very easy to use.

Re: Displaying a Gmail ATOM Feed In Google Reader

Gus — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:21:19 -0000

Type your comment here.So say I wanted to write the output to teh screen, or a file, for use with Geektool, how would I do that with the above?

Re: Displaying a Gmail ATOM Feed In Google Reader

Gus — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:21:06 -0000

Type your comment here.So say I wanted to write the output to teh screen, or a file, for use with Geektool, how would I do that with the above?