Here is a quick way to authenticate against Google and retrieve a protected feed. It does not use the supported ClientLogin method but it does allow you to get to some unsupported feeds (Reader, Bookmarks, etc) The Zend Gdata library is required $show_list = ‘show-google-reader-sub-list’; //the hook in a page $login = ”; $pass =… Read more »
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Google I/O session videos posted with slides
As I said earlier, Quite a few presentations from Google I/O have been posted for your viewing pleasure. I’ll be glued to these this weekend while I’m on call. Topics include Ajax KML Sketchup Android OpenSocial Appengine Data APIs Theory Talks Youtube Gears Mashups Maps and more!
October Speedlinking
I haven’t been able to post as often or as in depth as I’d like to have this past month. I chalk it up mostly to work, we all love 12 hour days right? But now that sign-off has passed and our last release of 2007 is calmly approaching (its on Friday), things have settled… Read more »
Quick Docs Api Example (python)
To use the gdata docs python client you need to upgrade to 1.0.7 or higher. First thing is to import the modules you’ll need. import gdata.docs.service import gdata.docs Then, set up the usual authentication parameters for the client. gd_client = gdata.docs.service.DocsService() gd_client.email = ‘timothy.broder’ gd_client.password = ‘*****’ gd_client.source = ‘gpowered-docs-list-ex’ gd_client.ProgrammaticLogin() The most basic query… Read more »
HOWTO: Displaying Blogger feeds with PHP
This HOWTO is going to follow the basic structure of the Python one. To start out you’ll have to grab the Zend Google data Client Library and then set the include_path so you can use it ini_set(“include_path”, “.:../:./include:../include:/home/gpowered/webapps/php/includes/ZendGdata-1.0.1/library”); We then import the parts the we’ll need: require_once ‘Zend/Loader.php’; Zend_Loader::loadClass(‘Zend_Gdata’); Zend_Loader::loadClass(‘Zend_Gdata_Query’); Zend_Loader::loadClass(‘Zend_Gdata_ClientLogin’); One of the first… Read more »
First Google Gadget
After being inspired about Google Gadgets from the Google Developer Podcast I came up with on that my old crew team can use. We have a shared google calendar that some of us use to keep track of races, meetings, etc. This gadget pulls and formats it nicely for the google IG or desktop. Javascript… Read more »
New Calendar API features
Google Calendar API posts new read and write features. They have added: – owncalendars: contains the collection of calendars that a user ‘owns’ – allcalendars: contains all the calendars that a user has access to Usefull for listing all your calendars if you manage a lot of them, or changing their settings all at once… Read more »
Picasa Web Api updates
Google Data Api’s posted a few updates today, a few of which I’ve really been looking forward to; Community Search, Retrieving a user’s recently uploaded photos, Retrieving recently added comments for a particular user, Searching a user’s photos, Filtering by tag, Uploading non-JPEG photos, Downloading the original photo. (my fav) Downloading the original photo: You… Read more »
