Comments on: HOWTO: Google Reader API Functions

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Anindita — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:54:56 +0000

Google has stopped supporting SID for authentication.

By: Bikash Kumar Patra

Bikash Kumar Patra — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:20:30 +0000

Instead of using SID, I suggest u to use "Auth" value which u recieve along with SID .
You have to set Authorization Header

set Authorization Header name as "Authorization"
set Authorization Header value as "GoogleLogin auth=authCode"

How to get authCode

a) Send a post request to url "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin"
provide username and password for the post request in URLEncoded format.

the response obtained should be of the format as below
SID=somevalue //ignore
LSID=somevalue //ignore
Auth=somevalue // this is the authCode ,disucussed above

Hope this helps.
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By: John Lehmann

John Lehmann — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:51:32 +0000

I just pasted in the code which is shown above, and put in my login and password. I know I'm doing something right, because if I put a bogus login/password, it fails in get_SID().

But when I have those correct, during "print get_subscription_list(SID)", in get_results, "f = urllib2.urlopen( request )" throws the exception: "TP Error 401: Unauthorized".

Here's the header:
{'Cookie': 'Name=SID;SID=DQAAAI44AAATY_xvhiEKN5yFPZGL_YqlG9VMXF_RNGmDjKTVSxCsWbwme1eU8ENSxx53iS-_8qBur3iKwouqBpr6Q_qTnvr32_BNN3_fSttw8xDpaliBVziqeXKSaVDTvreQ03vpOw3kXceGhOZS9OFJvKkdULT_LxAH4TuU4wjoLg_lVb3A6Dk6stXXGyhWzNs7v1fE4-w;Domain=.google.com;Path=/;Expires=160000000000', 'User-agent': 'gPowered'}

By: Bikash Kumar Patra

Bikash Kumar Patra — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:07:13 +0000

please write here the detail steps followed by you.
May be after that I will be able to help u

By: John Lehmann

John Lehmann — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 08:05:51 +0000

I'm able to get the SID, but as soon as it tries a get_results for the subscription list, I get back a 401 Unauthorized. Any idea what might be going wrong? The URL looks right because I can hit it from a web browser when I'm logged into reader.

By: bluepill

bluepill — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:07:37 +0000

@yorkchris10: You have to set Authorization Header

set Authorization Header name as "Authorization"
set Authorization Header value as "GoogleLogin auth=authCode"

How to get authCode

a) Send a post request to url "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin"
provide username and password for the post request in URLEncoded format.

the response obtained should be of the format as below
SID=somevalue //ignore
LSID=somevalue //ignore
Auth=somevalue // this is the authCode ,disucussed above

Hope this helps.

By: Tim Broder

Tim Broder — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:17:30 +0000

Not at the moment :-/

I'll try to take a look at it next week

By: yorkchris10

yorkchris10 — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:07:41 +0000

Do you have the new header for the new Auth method? I can't seem to get it to work according to http://code.google.com/p/pyrfeed/wiki/GoogleRea... .
Thanks, I've enjoyed this API.

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By: Y

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:28:27 +0000

Hello, does someone know if there is a way to retrieve my stared items?

thanks a lot!