Atom feeds for Facebook and Twitter

8 Comments

1. Apple Ratana Green
   1/16/2013 #

   You are quite prolific! via Facebook

2. Jeremy Cotter
   1/16/2013 #

   Glad to see you are back to crankin away and being the whiz kid you are Ryu!

3. Anonymous
   1/17/2013 #

   Great timing! I was just looking for such a tool. I couldn’t seem to find anything else comparable, though I did find an article about a similar project a coupla’ years back on which facebook put the kibosh — so beware!

   I have a some feedback and requests. My feed reader is the browser-based tt-rss (which I’m new to — I may be missing something; I was just going to double-check your feed in Thunderbird, but unfortunately at just this moment it seems to be returning a “500 Internal Server Error”)

   1. 1) include the name of the poster in the article title Compare my official notification feed: (could also be improved on – namely redundant) … with your script’s news feed (not at all clear what’s going on from the headlines).
   2. Most posts’ pictures are missing for me. I waited a while for it to load, but nothing came through. … although SOME others DO.
   3. adding the ‘like’ feature would be great
   4. show user comments
   5. ability to add comments would be ideal

   I’d been thinking before of writing a PHP script to serve an RSS/Atom feed of facebook through loopback.

   Big thanks for the tool and for sharing the source. It’s my first visit to your page. You ARE prolific indeed. Sorry to read about your accident. Glad you’re doing better. Cheers!

4. Casey Jones
   1/17/2013 #

   Damnit, I can’t seem to get it right. In the first comment my textual formatting got mangled. Couldn’t see a way to edit, and in my retry I forgot to sign my name. d-: Apologies.

5. ryan
   1/17/2013 #

   thanks for the feedback, casey! i’ll look into implementing some of those ideas today.

6. ryan
   1/17/2013 #

   notes for myself: i took a look at JWZ’s facebook-rss.pl, and it does a number of interesting things differently from my app:

   • it masquerades as facebook’s own iphone app so it can see posts from people who have blocked apps from seeing their posts.
   • it fetches checkins and people tagged in photos separately, which mine doesn’t yet do.
   • it looks like it explicitly includes posts from all of your friends, as opposed to using facebook’s ranking algorithm and your feedback, e.g. if you’ve ever said “only show important posts from this person” or “hide posts from this app.” mine intentionally includes facebook’s ranking and your feedback.

   i may add some of those to my app, but i don’t know if i’ll add all of them.

7. Anonymous
   3/23/2013 #

   Thanks for developing this! It works fine with the NewsGator reader, but when I tried it with SharpReader, I got a parsing error:

   Error parsing RSS XML: ‘georss’ is an undeclared namespace. Line 69, position 4.

   Could you add: xmlns:georss=”http://www.georss.org/georss”

   to the generated RSS feed?

   Thank you for considering this suggestion.

   • Scott Inrig, Ottawa, Canada.
8. ryan
   3/24/2013 #

   thanks scott! good call, done.