Comments on: LiveJournal For Google Reader v1.3 Update

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:49:05 +0000

Here’s how I got my Livejournal for Google Reader working. I’ve been running 2 days and it seems to be running peachy. Thank you Scatmania!

- I created a mysql db for it.

- I created a subdomain for it to run under. I don’t know if that’s needed but saw mention of it.

- After installing, I got this error:
Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL

to remedy, I ran database.sql from inside myphpadmin

- I had to change a line in main.php from
fusion.google.com/add?feedurl=http%3A//lj.abnib.co.uk/feed.php
to
fusion.google.com/add?feedurl=http%3A//EXAMPLE.com/feed.php
(replacing EXAMPLE.com with my own domain name)

I write a little more about this on my site

Thank you Scatmania!

By: Lee.org » Google Reader Livejournal Feed Fetcher

Lee.org » Google Reader Livejournal Feed Fetcher — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:33:03 +0000

[...] Reader can’t read Friends-only posts. That is a bother. Scatmania wrote a proxy tool that reads your Friends-only posts so that Google Reader can see them. He released the tool into [...]

By: dreik

dreik — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:12:28 +0000

Unfortunately didn’t work from my office and home networks.
P.S. Russia, St.Petersburg

By: Scatman Dan

Scatman Dan — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:09:23 +0000

Don’t panic!

It’s coming back! It shouldn’t have gone down at all, but the DNS hosts are idiots and they ballsed up the server move. It should have been back up by today but hasn’t yet… any time now…

By: Louise

Louise — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:06:18 +0000

Firstly: love this tool.

Secondly: it’s gone down! Or, at least, I can’t access it - it redirects to another page. If it’s not going to come back up, can I get a copy of the code, so I can host it on my own server?

*goes into withdrawals*

By: Serge

Serge — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:15:00 +0000

Is there a way to read all friends by one feed?

By: Unapologetically Mundane » Read LiveJournal Friends-Only Entries in Google Reader

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:53:20 +0000

[...] I posted recently in my old LiveJournal about how annoyed I was by the fact that Google Reader wouldn’t allow me to see locked entries, even when I was logged into LiveJournal. None of my LJ friends had found a workaround, so pre-”Project Runway” last night, I did a little Googling, and the first result that popped up was Scatmania’s LiveJournal for Google Reader. [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:36:05 +0000

This. Is. Awesome.

Thank you! And, because you wrote, ‘when someone asks me’… I’d love to be able to add insanejournal accounts. Yep yep. But not a big deal — I’m just basking in not having to log into everything. Woo!

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:13:12 +0000

Hi!

Inspired by your project, I’ve written one of my own - that does not keep the passwords in the database in cleartext. Instead, it generates a random per-feed encryption key, which is used by Google Reader as part of the URL of the feed, and the username and password are encrypted by this key and stored in the DB while encrypted. While not bullet-proof, this seems to be a somewhat more secure approach. It also generates an OPML, so one is able to add all of one’s friends (or any custom group) in one go. I’m thinking of adding a support for other authenticated feeds as well. If you’re interested in trying it out, drop me a line on my e-mail.

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:30:21 +0000

Hm, I’d love to be able to use this to read my friends page filter in Google Reader instead of having to subscribe to people’s LJs independently

By: Sammy

Sammy — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:26:35 +0000

Amazing! I love you! Haha.

By: aurora

aurora — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:31:27 +0000

Well this doesn’t seem to want to work for me.. I have a dash/underscore in my user name and I try to see my friends in my reader but I get the “nothing new” post… help?

By: Heidi

Heidi — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:39:18 +0000

Awesome! Thanks! :D I found this on the first page of a google search for “LJ Feeds Through Google Reader.” This’ll be awesome =) I’ve wanted to get all my feeds in one place for some time, but I no longer have the ability to add them through LJ (and I no longer have the desire to do so, either).

If you feel like fucking up my LJ account, have all the fun. There’s no credit card info or money info in there :P And I’m more realistic, to be honest. I figure you’ve got better things to do than spy on a chick you’ve never had contact with before.

By: morgandawn

morgandawn — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:35:44 +0000

With the recent acquisition of Livejournal by SUP, some of my friends are moving over to InsaneJournal and JournalFen. I’ve been struggling to find a low ram rss feed that will sort by date in a single feed with authentication. So if you ever have plans to expand this offering to other journaling services……. now would be the time.

By: Chris M

Chris M — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:00:21 +0000

Feature Idea:

If you could generate the list in an OPML file format (essentially an XML document with feed names & feed urls), the OPML file can be easily imported into Google Reader (and nearly every other reader, actually)… adding all of your LJ friends with one action instead of clicking the button for each one.