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Re: Show HN: Forked and updated the Chrome RSS subscription extension Google removed

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Post by crazysim »

justinkelly wrote: post #9
crazysim wrote: post #8

Any idea on the licensing issues? It would be great if Google "released" the source.

Google's Chrome extensions are BSD like license Assuming you've installed the extension you can grab its source from Chrome .config directory * which I imported and updated to github: https://github.com/justinkelly/chrome-rss The actual original source in SVN/Git may already be public but i've no idea where it is - somewhere deep in the chromium repo??

I wouldn't call the Google Talk extension to be under the BSD license even though it is Google's. This extension is far simpler than that though.

As for the original source, it's not in the Chromium repo:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#search/&q=...

Re: Show HN: Forked and updated the Chrome RSS subscription extension Google removed

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Post by latraveler »

I asked this question on SO the other day, perhaps someone here knows a solution ...

For the past few years I've been using Google Reader to archive my Twitter and Facebook history for various reasons. Obviously yesterday's news really threw a wrench in everything.

My problem ...

I need a way to export every 'article' from 3 subscriptions I have (not just the subscription URL) and import those into a good RSS reader (open to suggestions). Anyone have any advice?

http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/41671/google-read...

Re: Show HN: Forked and updated the Chrome RSS subscription extension Google removed

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Post by tomschlick »

latraveler wrote: post #12

I asked this question on SO the other day, perhaps someone here knows a solution ... For the past few years I've been using Google Reader to archive my Twitter and Facebook history for various reasons. Obviously yesterday's news really threw a wrench in everything. My problem ... I need a way to export every 'article' from 3 subscriptions I have (not just the subscription URL) and import those into a good RSS reader…

facebook and twitter both allow you to export data directly from them in a human & machine readable format (nice html pages along with json)... why would you use rss instead?

Re: Show HN: Forked and updated the Chrome RSS subscription extension Google removed

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Post by josteink »

At this point, it seems like working with Google technologies (like Chrome and reader) is turning more into doing a uphill battle where you have to hack your way to an end, as opposed to just doing what you want.

At that point, why not just use something open and welcoming instead?

Re: Show HN: Forked and updated the Chrome RSS subscription extension Google removed

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Post by platinum1 »

josteink wrote: post #14

At this point, it seems like working with Google technologies (like Chrome and reader) is turning more into doing a uphill battle where you have to hack your way to an end, as opposed to just doing what you want. At that point, why not just use something open and welcoming instead?

How is being able to fork an open source extension to an open source web browser an "uphill battle" and not "open and welcoming?"

Re: Show HN: Forked and updated the Chrome RSS subscription extension Google removed

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Post by josteink »

platinum1 wrote: post #15
josteink wrote: post #14

At this point, it seems like working with Google technologies (like Chrome and reader) is turning more into doing a uphill battle where you have to hack your way to an end, as opposed to just doing what you want. At that point, why not just use something open and welcoming instead?

How is being able to fork an open source extension to an open source web browser an "uphill battle" and not "open and welcoming?"

Currently Chrome is not an open-source browser. Chromium is.

As for Chrome, unless you are willing to go through hoops, it is only willing to install extensions from the Chrome Web Store.

You are now jumping through hoops to reinstall something you had installed which Google removed from their web-store.

Now Google which is your application (Chrome) and service (Reader)-provider, is working against you instead of enabling you. It didn't use to be that way, but now Google has changed.

That's the uphill battle. That's the not enabling part. That's the not open and welcoming. Contrast that to for instance Firefox and you will find a completely different picture.

Firefox has no mixed interests here, and that means they wont pull moves like this.

Re: Show HN: Forked and updated the Chrome RSS subscription extension Google removed

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Post by RexRollman »

tomschlick wrote: post #13
latraveler wrote: post #12

I asked this question on SO the other day, perhaps someone here knows a solution ... For the past few years I've been using Google Reader to archive my Twitter and Facebook history for various reasons. Obviously yesterday's news really threw a wrench in everything. My problem ... I need a way to export every 'article' from 3 subscriptions I have (not just the subscription URL) and import those into a good RSS reader…

facebook and twitter both allow you to export data directly from them in a human & machine readable format (nice html pages along with json)... why would you use rss instead?

It the case of Twitter, that is a really recent development. Perhaps the poster's workflow predates that?

Re: Show HN: Forked and updated the Chrome RSS subscription extension Google removed

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Post by justinkelly »

nsmartt wrote: post #10
justinkelly wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google's Chrome extensions are BSD like license Assuming you've installed the extension you can grab its source from Chrome .config directory * which I imported and updated to github: https://github.com/justinkelly/chrome-rss The actual original source in SVN/Git may already be public but i've no idea where it is - somewhere deep in the chromium repo??

It isn't that I don't believe you, but I don't see a license file in any of the Google-owned extensions I have installed. Source?

refer the header is this file i imported into github

* https://github.com/justinkelly/chrome-rss/blob/master/common...

Re: Show HN: Forked and updated the Chrome RSS subscription extension Google removed

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Post by justinkelly »

crazysim wrote: post #11
justinkelly wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google's Chrome extensions are BSD like license Assuming you've installed the extension you can grab its source from Chrome .config directory * which I imported and updated to github: https://github.com/justinkelly/chrome-rss The actual original source in SVN/Git may already be public but i've no idea where it is - somewhere deep in the chromium repo??

I wouldn't call the Google Talk extension to be under the BSD license even though it is Google's. This extension is far simpler than that though. As for the original source, it's not in the Chromium repo: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#search/&q=...

@crazysim - this is from the source of the extension

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