Tag Archive for 'gdata'

Quick Google Authentication in PHP

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 = [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

HOWTO: Displaying Blogger feeds with Python

This first HOWTO is going to cover how I did the basic structure of the posts section of gPowered: pulling from blogger. The main functions we’ll need are to show a range of posts, a single post, and a function to get the total number of posts that are in the blog. The reason I [...]



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