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The New Bloglines Web Services API

Posted by michael on from the reinventing-usenet dept.

Marc Hedlund writes "Bloglines, everyone's favorite RSS aggregator, changed the RSS world again today by releasing the Bloglines Web Services APIs. FeedDemon, NetNewsWire, and Blogbot will all be adding support for the APIs so that users can store their feed state on Bloglines, and read their feeds from any browser. I posted an article introducing the APIs, including a full three-pane desktop aggregator source code example, on the the O'Reilly site."

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  1. My favorite RSS aggregator is: by Giant+Ape+Skeleton · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The Mozilla Thunderbird mail client.

    I just installed the newest preview release and was floored to discover that it's got an RSS aggregator built right in!

    You can set up subscriptions to your favorite feeds just and get them refreshed with your mail and newsgroups.

    Pretty danged nifty, IMHO

    --
    The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
  2. Tip for reading posts with cookies in Thunderbird by dn15 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    On a related note, I've noticed most RSS clients have no support for cookies. Bad news if you read blogs that have friends-only posts which you can only view when logged in.

    But with Thunderbird there is a workaround for it. Just copy cookies.txt from your Firefox or Mozilla profile folder into your Thunderbird profile! Then you'll be able to see all the posts you have permission to view, not just public ones. Just make sure you have set an option to remain logged for future sessions before copying the file.

  3. Re:Not everyone's favorite.... by josephscott · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can see all of the new entries across your feeds by clicking on the folder above the list of feeds.