I’d like for someone to write a Wordpress plugin that will pull all of the notes for an article out of RSSmeme. The JSON API is now ready for it. Here’s a quick “how to” to get your rolling:
- Build your URL. You want to operate on http://www.rssmeme.com/api/ so you have no “built in” filter on pub_date like the front page does. Let’s get all the notes for the current top story on RSSmeme. The URL we’d build is this:
http://www.rssmeme.com/api/?output=json&url=http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/
- That URL will give us some JSON that we can then parse. The format is very similar to the FriendFeed API. It is basically one big dictionary. You can see there is an ‘entries’ key that has list of entries (in our case there is only 1 item in the list because we are filtering for a specific url). That entry is another dictionary that contains a key ‘notes’. Under ‘notes’ is a list of dictionaries containing information about the note. It gives you the author of the note (called a feed because the note came from a feed object) and the content of the note. The author of the note is also a dictionary containing information like their id in RSSmeme, a link to their Google Reader shared page, and their name.
That’s all it should take! Please be kind to my server; try to cache whatever you pull out of it. RSSmeme caches data for 10 minutes so make sure your cache is at least that long.
Enjoy! Please ask any questions you may have.
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