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friendfeed.py Patch for use on Google App Engine

Ask and ye shall receive.  Attached is a patch for using friendfeed.py on Google App Engine.  You need to also have demjson available.  Google App Engine does not allow use of many C modules (like cjson) and both json and simplejson will throw decoding errors from time to time. demjson is slow but won’t throw [...]

JSON Callbacks for RSSmeme API

The RSSmeme API now supports JSON callbacks.  Just place an additional parameter ‘callback’ onto the end of the URL to set the callback function name.  This will let you use the API in JavaScript.  Here is an example:
http://www.rssmeme.com/api/?output=json&callback=foo
This came from a user request.  I figured eventually someone would ask for it so there you are!

Ophthalmologists and Divers Love RSSmeme

68.180.194.243 - - [13/May/2008:15:04:48 -0400] “GET /api/?output=atom&feeds_gte=3&search=ophthalmologist HTTP/1.0″ 200 196 “-” “Yahoo Pipes 1.0″
68.180.194.243 - - [13/May/2008:15:04:48 -0400] “GET /api/?output=atom&feeds_gte=3&search=optics HTTP/1.0″ 200 196 “-” “Yahoo Pipes 1.0″
68.180.194.243 - - [13/May/2008:15:04:48 -0400] “GET /api/?output=atom&feeds_gte=3&search=optician HTTP/1.0″ 200 196 “-” “Yahoo Pipes 1.0″
68.180.194.243 - - [13/May/2008:15:04:48 -0400] “GET /api/?output=atom&feeds_gte=3&search=optometrist HTTP/1.0″ 200 196 “-” “Yahoo Pipes 1.0″
68.180.194.243 - - [...]

Mobile RSSmeme

This morning I built a mobile RSSmeme using the RSSmeme API.  It is only 50 lines of templates and code in order to generate this page.  It is simply a mobile representation of the RSSmeme front page.  See how easy it is to work with the API?
Here’s the code:

import urllib2
from django.core.cache import cache
from django.shortcuts import [...]

How to Use the RSSmeme API to Pull Notes into Wordpress

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 [...]