Thursday, March 23, 2006
Google Reader does JSON and Atom 1.0
The new share feature in Google Reader has been noted in a few places, not least of which is on the main Google Reader Blog.
A brief but informative post at Persistent Info by Mihai who worked on the feature, gives a few key technical insights into the implementations. Key amongst these are the fact that
Update: It's also worth taking a look at Niall Kennedy's post where he reverse engineered the Google Reader API.
Update 2: Also very worthwhile seeing Tim Bray's comments on the Atom data they are outputting.
A brief but informative post at Persistent Info by Mihai who worked on the feature, gives a few key technical insights into the implementations. Key amongst these are the fact that
- the "put a clip on your site" feature is producing the data in JSON format - so although it is easiest to display it as styled by Google, it's also possible to use the data in a radically different form
- the feeds produced by Google Reader are in the Atom 1.0 format
Update: It's also worth taking a look at Niall Kennedy's post where he reverse engineered the Google Reader API.
Update 2: Also very worthwhile seeing Tim Bray's comments on the Atom data they are outputting.