Comments on: Dear LazyWeb: libnotify + Google Reader?

By: lsi

lsi — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:44:40 +0000

it would be better with other languages support, but thanks..

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:13:26 +0000

prism-google-reader !?

By: http://cratoo.de/

http://cratoo.de/ — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:33:25 +0000

Hi,

have you thought about using some Rss/Feed to E-Mail Service?
There are some out there, eg. Feedblitz, rssfwd, sendmerss or Feedburner and Feedit.
This way, you only had to manage one application.

greets,
Andi

By: Jeff Schroeder

Jeff Schroeder — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:32:16 +0000

http://specto.sourceforge.net/

By: Pici

Pici — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:32:39 +0000

I was going to suggest building something yourself using the not-yet-published-but-reverse-engineered Google Reader API ( http://code.google.com/p/pyrfeed/wiki/GoogleReaderAPI ). Perhaps a project for a rainy day?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:09:32 +0000

I have been using yarssr for a while now for my RSS feed, but found it does not support all sites I want to check, such as, for example, google mail. I just want a software hidding at systray, checking in background and give me a notice if anything are updated.

Im going to try out Grnotify, but have also found Specto, http://specto.sourceforge.net/, cant say its the solution to all problem, but it is worth a try, and it does support alot of feeds.

// Patrick, UK.

By: Stuart Langridge

Stuart Langridge — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:43:22 +0000

Stupid fix if you want to do it yourself:

python -c “import urllib,urllib2; from xml.dom import minidom; fp = urllib.urlopen(‘https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin',urllib.urlencode({‘Email’:'GOOGLEUSERNAME’,'Passwd’:'GOOGLEPASSWORD’})); SIDDATA=fp.read().split(‘\n’)[0]; rq=urllib2.Request(‘http://www.google.com/reader/api/0/unread-count?all=true',None,{‘Cookie’:SIDDATA+’;path=/;domain=.google.com;expires=1600000000′}); fp=urllib2.urlopen(rq); dom=minidom.parseString(fp.read()); unreadcount=[x.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('number')[0].firstChild.nodeValue for x in dom.getElementsByTagName(‘string’) if x.firstChild.nodeValue.endswith(‘/state/com.google/reading-list’)][0]; import pynotify; pynotify.init(‘Google Reader Unread’); n = pynotify.Notification(‘Unread messages’, unreadcount); n.show();”

By: myrtti

myrtti — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:11:32 +0000

@Wouter, JohnnyG:
Thanks a million, just what I wanted, installing now :-D

@Håkan:
But those would require me to use Firefox ;-)

By: Håkan

Håkan — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:08:42 +0000

I use two firefox addons.
Google Reader Watcher
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4808
and
Better GReader
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6424

By: Wolfgang

Wolfgang — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:03:36 +0000

Hi Miia,

I guess what you are searching for is http://grnotify.sourceforge.net/. Actually I have never used the app, because I find it too distracting from work. There is also a Firefox extension http://www.markdbd.com/proyectos/google_reader_notifier/.

Wolfgang