Google Reader shutting down

Post by ohwp » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 8:56 AM UTC

Post by mprovost » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 9:06 AM UTC

fauigerzigerk wrote: post #526

conesus wrote: post #13

This has been a long time coming. Four years ago I began work on my own feed reader, NewsBlur, and it's now a full-fledged Google Reader competitor. It's also a paid app and has been paying for itself nearly since the beginning. http://www.newsblur.com I hope HN finds NewsBlur useful, especially since it's got native mobile apps on iOS (iPhone+iPad), Android, Windows Phone, and Nokia MeeGo. Native story sharing was l…

Brilliant. I created an account. However, there are two very important features that Google reader has: (1) It lets you add subscriptions to regular websites without an RSS feed. (2) It lets you search for articles that were published before you subscribed to the feed. I think you could add (2) simply by redirecting to Google search using the site:sitename.com argument. (1) may not be that simple to add but it would…

Post by lobster_johnson » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 9:16 AM UTC

_delirium wrote: post #246

wslh wrote: post #126

Google Reader is irreplaceable, it is not only about reading RSS. That is the easy part. It is about going back in time and accessing all past feeds in an organized way (it is difficult to rebuilt that from crawling and web scraping). If you add a blog now you can read articles that are not present in the current feed. Google Reader is the core of my information diet. Not twitter. Thousands of blogs starred, liked, a…

It's unclear to me if they're also discontinuing the Google Feed API: https://developers.google.com/feed/ This is quite valuable because it includes historical data, including stuff that's dropped off the currently available RSS feeds (many sites only list recent posts in their feeds).

    Google will announce if we intend to discontinue
    or make backwards incompatible changes to this 
    API or Service. We will use commercially
    reasonable efforts to continue to operate the 
    Google Feed API without these changes until 
    April 20, 2015, unless (as Google determines in 
    its reasonable good faith judgment):

    * required by law or third party relationship 
    (including if there is a change in applicable 
    law or relationship), or
    * doing so could create a security risk or 
    substantial economic or material technical 
    burden.

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    versions, features, and functionality labeled 
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Post by lobster_johnson » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 9:24 AM UTC

_delirium wrote: post #246

wslh wrote: post #126

Google Reader is irreplaceable, it is not only about reading RSS. That is the easy part. It is about going back in time and accessing all past feeds in an organized way (it is difficult to rebuilt that from crawling and web scraping). If you add a blog now you can read articles that are not present in the current feed. Google Reader is the core of my information diet. Not twitter. Thousands of blogs starred, liked, a…

It's unclear to me if they're also discontinuing the Google Feed API: https://developers.google.com/feed/ This is quite valuable because it includes historical data, including stuff that's dropped off the currently available RSS feeds (many sites only list recent posts in their feeds).

    Unless expressly permitted by the content owner
    or by applicable law, you agree that you will
    not, and will not permit your end users to, do
    the following with content returned from the APIs:

    * Scrape, build databases or otherwise create 
    permanent copies of such content, or keep cached 
    copies longer than permitted by the cache header;
    * Copy, translate, modify, create a derivative 
    work of, sell, lease, lend, convey, distribute, 
    publicly display or sublicense to any third party;
    * Misrepresent the source or ownership; or
    * Remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, 
    trademark or other proprietary rights notices,
    falsify or delete any author attributions, legal
    notices or other labels of the origin or source 
    of material.

Post by haydenchambers » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 9:29 AM UTC

mprovost wrote: post #533

fauigerzigerk wrote: post #526

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brilliant. I created an account. However, there are two very important features that Google reader has: (1) It lets you add subscriptions to regular websites without an RSS feed. (2) It lets you search for articles that were published before you subscribed to the feed. I think you could add (2) simply by redirecting to Google search using the site:sitename.com argument. (1) may not be that simple to add but it would…

Google can do (1) because they crawl the entire web constantly. That's not going to be a trivial feature to add for anyone else. (2) is also probably a side effect of crawling pretty much everything before you ask for it.