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It's unclear to me if they're also discontinuing the Google Feed API: https://developers.google.com/feed/ https://developers.google.com/feed/ This is quite val

It's unclear to me if they're also discontinuing the Google Feed API: https://developers.google.com/feed/ https://developers.google.com/feed/ This is quite valuable because it includes historical data, including stuff that's dropped off the currently available RSS feeds (many sites only list recent posts in their feeds).

lobster_johnson 14y ago
According to the ToS at https://developers.google.com/feed/terms https://developers.google.com/feed/terms: Google will announce if we intend to discontinue or make backwards incompatible changes to this API or Service. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to continue to operate the Google Feed API without these changes until April 20, 2015, unless (as Google determines in its reasonable good faith judgment): * required by law or third party relationship (including if there is a change in applicable law or relationship), or * doing so could create a security risk or substantial economic or material technical burden. This Deprecation Policy doesn't apply to versions, features, and functionality labeled as "experimental." Of course, who knows what "commercially reasonable efforts" really mean.
lobster_johnson 14y ago
Oh, and it looks like the feed API may not be used to save anything; Google's API ToS [1] document has the following text: Unless expressly permitted by the content owner or by applicable law, you agree that you will not, and will not permit your end users to, do the following with content returned from the APIs: * Scrape, build databases or otherwise create permanent copies of such content, or keep cached copies longer than permitted by the cache header; * Copy, translate, modify, create a derivative work of, sell, lease, lend, convey, distribute, publicly display or sublicense to any third party; * Misrepresent the source or ownership; or * Remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices, falsify or delete any author attributions, legal notices or other labels of the origin or source of material. The first two bullet points are the ones that apply. You can't use the feed API to fetch a bunch of feeds and make them available through an app, for example. [1] https://developers.google.com/terms/ https://developers.google.com/terms/

lobster_johnson 14y ago

According to the ToS at https://developers.google.com/feed/terms https://developers.google.com/feed/terms: Google will announce if we intend to discontinue or make backwards incompatible changes to this API or Service. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to continue to operate the Google Feed API without these changes until April 20, 2015, unless (as Google determines in its reasonable good faith judgment): * required by law or third party relationship (including if there is a change in applicable law or relationship), or * doing so could create a security risk or substantial economic or material technical burden. This Deprecation Policy doesn't apply to versions, features, and functionality labeled as "experimental." Of course, who knows what "commercially reasonable efforts" really mean.

lobster_johnson 14y ago

Oh, and it looks like the feed API may not be used to save anything; Google's API ToS [1] document has the following text: Unless expressly permitted by the content owner or by applicable law, you agree that you will not, and will not permit your end users to, do the following with content returned from the APIs: * Scrape, build databases or otherwise create permanent copies of such content, or keep cached copies longer than permitted by the cache header; * Copy, translate, modify, create a derivative work of, sell, lease, lend, convey, distribute, publicly display or sublicense to any third party; * Misrepresent the source or ownership; or * Remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices, falsify or delete any author attributions, legal notices or other labels of the origin or source of material. The first two bullet points are the ones that apply. You can't use the feed API to fetch a bunch of feeds and make them available through an app, for example. [1] https://developers.google.com/terms/ https://developers.google.com/terms/