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Probably not something you'll commonly hear, but: an easy way to program against an API and add widgets/plugins. Within newsrooms, where RSS readers get used pr
by stdbrouw 15y ago
Probably not something you'll commonly hear, but: an easy way to program against an API and add widgets/plugins. Within newsrooms, where RSS readers get used professionally, it's frustrating having to work within the limitations of Google Reader and its unpublished API, yet on the other hand it's just not worth the engineering effort to create a reader from scratch since it's not a business-critical app.
- icebraining 15y agoAn API will definitively be on my feature list, but I didn't know they were used in professional circles. Do you have any examples of such use cases?
- stdbrouw 15y agoJust personal ones, like using webhooks to filter feed items according to their content (like you can do with Yahoo! Pipes), inlining the content from links in twitter feeds, or grabbing all starred content to display in a front-end "curation" widget. There's tons of cool stuff you could do, really. Don't overthink what I meant with professional use, though, mainly it's just people using a reader with 10 times the feeds a regular user would have, and perhaps sharing their account with other people to go through unread content more quickly.