Copyright 2011 Rodolfo Wilhelmy

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A Google Reader API façade for Adobe Air.

Supports:

• Secure authentication (No OAuth yet).
• Subscriptions management.
• Tagging items.

TODO

1. User interface as a PoC.
2. Unit testing.
3. onRequestSuccess/onRequestError should return "result" object with more info.
4. Find a better way to handle error messages (such as a dictionary).
5. Handle CAPTCHA requirements.

References

• http://code.google.com/p/pyrfeed/wiki/GoogleReaderAPI
• http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2009.11.04.html
• http://blog.martindoms.com/2009/08/15/using-the-google-reader-api-part-1/

Usage

Initialize and setup listeners

var reader:GoogleReader = new GoogleReader();
reader.onRequestSuccess = reqSuccess;
reader.onRequestError = reqError;

Authentication

"OK" = reader.authenticate("koolaid@gmail.com", "ohyeah!", "myAuthCallback");

Get user's RSS subscriptions

{
  "subscriptions":[
    {
      "id":"feed/http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss",
      "title":"CNN.com - Breaking News, ...",
      "categories":[],
      "sortid":"FF1EEAB5",
      "firstitemmsec":"1308122816904"
    },
    {
      "id":"feed/http://feedproxy.google.com/TechCrunch",
      "title":"TechCrunch",
      "categories":[
        {
          "id":"user/35397781436425093193/label/Tech",
          "label":"Tech"
        }
      ],
      "sortid":"53F9A2C3",
      "firstitemmsec":"1308146223866"
    }
  ]
} = reader.getSubscriptions("mySubsCallback");

User information

{
  "userId":"26397781466425093193",
  "userName":"KoolAid",
  "userProfileId":"219036081246954240029",
  "userEmail":"koolaid@gmail.com",
  "isBloggerUser":false,
  "signupTimeSec":0,
  "isMultiLoginEnabled":false
} = reader.getUser("myUserCallback");

Get subscription's items

reader.getItemsForFeed("feed/http://feedproxy.google.com/TechCrunch", 10, "myItemsCallback");