It too shut down shop in March 2018.īy then, people were used to the idea of RSS feed readers but did not have any reliable solution to bank on. Then came Digg Reader which was launched as an alternative for Google Reader. It had a loyal userbase at first was subsequently sacked because of declining users. Google Reader was launched in 2005 and was one of the very first RSS readers to provide people with the facility of following their favorite sources on the web. Instead, you can add the RSS feed URL to your reader and it should notify you whenever a specific source has posted an image, article, or video. RSS feed readers eliminate the need for visiting multiple websites to check for the latest news or publications. In the true spirit of getting trending news as it breaks on top sources, nothing beats RSS. Questions? Feedback? Want to stay up to date when I drive cross country and take photos of the beautiful countryside between New York and California? Follow on Twitter.RSS reader apps allow you to follow your favorite writers, influencers, channels, and publications like a shadow. will take care of the scaling and infrastructure, and you can take care of building a new layer that might make you famous/well-off/existentially-happy.
#FEED READER API CODE#
If you want to handle the scaling part, use the raw NewsBlur code on GitHub. You’re building on an API, not a service end-to-end. If you build it, they will come, and there’s no hard scaling part Profit is great, but not at the cost of ads. NewsBlur is built to make life better, a small net-enabled reading experience at a time. NewsBlur is not some fly-by-night air-ride-equipped service out to make a buck. Additionally, ads degrade the NewsBlur experience. Why? Because NewsBlur preserves the original site, so there are already ads on the page if the publisher chooses to have them. What you can’t do is wrap advertisements around NewsBlur data.
#FEED READER API ANDROID#
Got an Android device and want to make a mobile client that you can charge money for and make a profit? The NewsBlur API supports that. Want to mix up a social layer with the subscriptions in your NewsBlur account? Just use /reader/feeds, /reader/feed/:id, and /rss_feeds/statistics. But more importantly, you can use NewsBlur data in ways that are not even possible on the website today.
If you choose to use the NewsBlur API, you are building complements to the website. Google Reader has a website, but more than a handful of enormous venture-engorged companies make their living by using the Reader API. Twitter has a web client, but the real iceberg is the ecosystem built on their API. (OK, there is, it’s /reader/delete_feed.) But what does this API mean for you? Woah! How does that even work? There’s no endpoint for cannibalism. But it’s not corporate, not funded, and certainly not battle-tested. This API is the result of 22 months of work and thought.
#FEED READER API FREE#
I’d like to briefly note that I work on NewsBlur in my free time, and it’s entirely open-source on GitHub. I spent a lot of time polishing the look and readability of the API, so I hope you like it, since if you’re going to be developing on top of it, you will probably spend a looong time working with the 30 endpoints. The API is meant to be used with an authenticated account, which can be created directly from the API. Without going too deep into explaining various parts of the API, you can dive right into it by viewing the various API endpoints at. How about the intelligence classifiers for a site? To get this data, you would need to make two calls: This is a screenshot from the Statistics dialog from a single feed: Let’s take a quick look at a visualization of the data you can get out of the API. This includes the original site, stories, intelligence classifiers, statistics, and a really neat River of News view that aggregates multiple feeds into a single view. This API gives you access to all the moving parts that make up the flagship site. NewsBlur is a visual feed reader with intelligence. It’s free, it comes with tons of juicy data, and it can be used to create your own feed reader. I’m happy to announce NewsBlur’s brand-spanking-new API. For those of you who don’t know, NewsBlur HQ is a comfy seat on the A train, part of the NYC subway system, since that’s where most of the code gets written anyhow. Please vote for this blog post on Hacker News.
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