RSS feed for public timeline

[Richard Hirsch <hi...@gmail.com>]

I've been looking recently at various integration technologies and
thought RSS might be one option for the public timeline. What about
having a configuration setting, that a customer could decide whether
it is active or not.

We could probably re-use existing API code.

D.

Re: RSS feed for public timeline

[Richard Hirsch <hi...@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Vassil Dichev <vd...@apache.org> wrote:

> > The public feed is already available via twitter api (
> > statuses/public_timeline.json) without authorization
>
> Yes, that's intentional, but even statuses/public_timeline.xml cannot
> be parsed by a feed reader...
>
> If we keep the same HTTP authentication setup, it will just work if we
>

this might be a problem when twitter shifts to OAuth (think this happens in
July?)



> use the twitter API convention to use the extension to determine the
> type of the response, e.g. public_timeline.rss, public_timemline.atom,
> etc.
>

Good idea

Re: RSS feed for public timeline

[Vassil Dichev <vd...@apache.org>]

> The public feed is already available via twitter api (
> statuses/public_timeline.json) without authorization

Yes, that's intentional, but even statuses/public_timeline.xml cannot
be parsed by a feed reader...

If we keep the same HTTP authentication setup, it will just work if we
use the twitter API convention to use the extension to determine the
type of the response, e.g. public_timeline.rss, public_timemline.atom,
etc.

Re: RSS feed for public timeline

[Richard Hirsch <hi...@gmail.com>]

The public feed is already available via twitter api (
statuses/public_timeline.json) without authorization

D.

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Richard Hirsch <hi...@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Vassil Dichev <vd...@apache.org> wrote:
> > I've been thinking for some time about some type of RSS/Atom feed (not
> > only for the public timeline), because this is one of the few ways you
> > can track which messages have already been read (apart from the mail
> > action, but it has a different usage scenario). So adding a feed for
> > e.g. all API methods that Twitter supports wouldn't be much more
> > effort than just for the public timeline. Of course, the feeds would
> > need authorization when necessary.
>
> Thought about that as well. Was considering having Public feed without
> authorization and personal feeds with authorization. What I don't know
> is what RSS readers can deal with authorization
>
> >
> > Vassil
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Richard Hirsch <hi...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> I've been looking recently at various integration technologies and
> >> thought RSS might be one option for the public timeline. What about
> >> having a configuration setting, that a customer could decide whether
> >> it is active or not.
> >>
> >> We could probably re-use existing API code.
> >>
> >> D.
> >>
> >
>

Re: RSS feed for public timeline

[Richard Hirsch <hi...@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Vassil Dichev <vd...@apache.org> wrote:
> I've been thinking for some time about some type of RSS/Atom feed (not
> only for the public timeline), because this is one of the few ways you
> can track which messages have already been read (apart from the mail
> action, but it has a different usage scenario). So adding a feed for
> e.g. all API methods that Twitter supports wouldn't be much more
> effort than just for the public timeline. Of course, the feeds would
> need authorization when necessary.

Thought about that as well. Was considering having Public feed without
authorization and personal feeds with authorization. What I don't know
is what RSS readers can deal with authorization

>
> Vassil
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Richard Hirsch <hi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've been looking recently at various integration technologies and
>> thought RSS might be one option for the public timeline. What about
>> having a configuration setting, that a customer could decide whether
>> it is active or not.
>>
>> We could probably re-use existing API code.
>>
>> D.
>>
>

Re: RSS feed for public timeline

[Vassil Dichev <vd...@apache.org>]

I've been thinking for some time about some type of RSS/Atom feed (not
only for the public timeline), because this is one of the few ways you
can track which messages have already been read (apart from the mail
action, but it has a different usage scenario). So adding a feed for
e.g. all API methods that Twitter supports wouldn't be much more
effort than just for the public timeline. Of course, the feeds would
need authorization when necessary.

Vassil


On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Richard Hirsch <hi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been looking recently at various integration technologies and
> thought RSS might be one option for the public timeline. What about
> having a configuration setting, that a customer could decide whether
> it is active or not.
>
> We could probably re-use existing API code.
>
> D.
>