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Bug [?] in APML feed

Dan MacTough — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:03:06 GMT

Very excited to play with the new APML feed. One thing I notice that I think is a bug - looking at my feed, the dates are... unusual: for example, <DateCreated>2008-[b][u]47[/u][/b]-21T09:47:57Z</DateCreated>. There's no 47th month. That's a bug, right? Or is there supposed to be some informational importance to that unexpected value?

Analogy to Google Reader's new "Notes" feature

shanecavanaugh — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:48:06 GMT

[i]I figure I'd post this here as it would likely apply to all apps that interface with the NewsGator API:[/i]

Asking for feature replication doesn't feel quite right.

I used to use Google Reader because I preferred it over NewsGator online, but I'm getting an iPod touch and the NewsGator iPhone/iPod touch interface plus NNW is a great combo. Up until today, Reader didn't really have anything over NewsGator/NNW, but the new "Share with note" social feature in Reader is what I'd like to see added to the NewsGator API.

I've been using Movable Type's Action Streams plugin to share links via various web apps on my own site, and the longer I've been utilizing it the more I've been wanting to comment on what I've been sharing. Google said it well: "If you are like me, you might want to share something in Reader, but think your friends might not 'get' why you are sharing it."

The ability to comment on sites I'm not subscribed too is also important. I think it makes sense that I can share other "news" items through the online news-reading service I sync my desktop reader to.

Newsgator Powershell Provider

aaronlerch — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:00:36 GMT

http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=NewsGatorPSProvider

I've created a CodePlex project with the initial stab (read-only) at a Newsgator Powershell Provider. I'm still working on the instructions to get it running (if you want to try, drop me a note via the CodePlex contact link, or email aaronlerch [at] yahoo [dot] com).

So far you can navigate to "newsgator:" and browse your folders and posts, but you can't read a post explicitly, nor can you mark one as read. There's a bit of work to be done, so if you're interested in helping, let me know.

Thanks!

BUG: Inappropriate source element in posts

Dan MacTough — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:54:37 GMT

My last post was more of a gripe/feature request, but I'd call this post a bug report (albeit a minor bug).

As of some time late this afternoon, every post is now being modified by adding a <source/> element even where it appears in its original feed. In addition, the values of the unnecessary <source/> element are not correct. The <source/> element, when used, should reference the FEED title and link to the FEED url, not the POST title and POST url.

See: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html#ltsourcegtSubelementOfLtitemgt

I don't think NewsGator should EVER add the <source/> element EXCEPT when a post has been clipped, in which case only the clippings RSS should contain the NewsGator-added <source/> element. Of course, posts that already contain a <source/> element when spidered by NG should not have that <source/> element modified.

clipposts

Dan MacTough — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:58:32 GMT

It would be nice if the clipposts (PostItem.aspx) endpoint could provide an error message when there's an error. I've been "clipping" posts that are failing (due to a change in the endpoint URL) for two months, but I had no way of knowing that my clippings were not clipped -- lost forever. :(

The clip endpoints ought to at least provide HTTP responses. I've been getting HTTP 200 when "clipping" to the PostItem.aspx/clip_posts endpoint (which apparently was changes to PostItem.aspx/clipposts - no underscore).

Non-commercial License Use of API - Logo Requirement

ardekantur — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:26:14 GMT

I'm planning on writing a feedreader in Linux that utilizes the NewsGator API. Since it will be free and open-source, I imagine this is a noncommercial use of the API. The requirements of the noncommercial API require that I prominently place a NewsGator logo in the parts of the interface that utilize the API. However, my application will be command-line based, and thus not have the ability to display images. What is the recommended method of adhering to the API license agreement in this case?

Suggestions needed to prevent login prompt from calling API by Flex

guolong.li — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:16:06 GMT

we are interested in using NewsGator API for our News service. I am doing some prototypings right now to use our frontend Flex actionscript to call the corresponding REST API. I have difficulties to get around with the Authentication prompt by wrapping user credentials in actionscript code. I tried HTTPService and URLRequest. Tried encoding vs non-encoding. So far none is working yet. Below is a section of code, please give me some suggestions.

Thanks
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var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(https://services.newsgator.com/ngws/svc/Subscription.aspx/ALocation/headlines);
request.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
var encoder:Base64Encoder = new Base64Encoder();
var str:String = "username:password";
var size:uint = str.length;
encoder.encode(str, 0, size-1);
var base64EncodedCredentials:String = encoder.flush();
var header1:URLRequestHeader = new URLRequestHeader("X-NGAPIToken", "YOURTOKEN");
var header2:URLRequestHeader = new URLRequestHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + base64EncodedCredentials);
request.requestHeaders = [header1, header2];
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();

//listen for when the data loads
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, showHeadlineOnCreateComplete);
loader.load(request);

Higher AppID Access Token?

MoviegoerMan — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:59:31 GMT

I sent an email to support@newsgator.com and then got a response to make my requests here. I need access to the REST clipping APIs. I would like to be granted access to the clipping APIs. Could you either give me another AppID or change the access for my key?

I have tried using the 3 following url methods to get the list of clippings and none of them work with my AppID.

http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/svc/ClippingsRSS.aspx?uid={UserName}
and
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/svc/ClippingsRSS.aspx?uid={UserName}&limit=20
and
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/svc/ClippingsRSS.aspx?uid={UserName}&limit=20&fld=MYC

The documentation makes claims that you can use the POST APIs to add/delete clippings under the folder section without more access. However, The ClippingRSS section makes no claims of needing more access to read them. I'm assuming getting more access will allow our application to test/demo both features. Is this correct?

We are building demo news reader applications for AT&T's IPTV platform. I'm a principal member of technical staff in one of the R&D groups. These apps will be used for demo purposes at this level and not used at a commercial level at this time. Do you know if there are a limited number of user accounts I can use with an App ID? If so, please let me know how many I can have to demonstrate the integration of IPTV with newsgator.

Thank you,
Brian

highlyviewedposts anonymous access? and feed retrieve anonymous access?

Ariel — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:11:58 GMT

Hello.
Is there any reason to restrict the access of http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/svc/PostItem.aspx/highlyviewedposts using the user/pass?
Can that method has anonymous access?
I want to show the “highlyviewedposts” for “today” (is a feature of the web app I’m working on), can I show that to any users without asking them to log in? maybe I can use my own server and use my own credentials to get the REST call, and then show the results. Is that ok? (then if the user wants, for example, to mark a post as read, s/he will need to log in to NG)

And, is there any way to access the content of a feed without logging in? for example Google has the Feed API (I could use the Google API if the user is not logged in on Newsgator, but I would like to use a NG API if is possible), then when the user logs in I continue using the NG API.

Thanks!,
Ariel

How to get Latest update for a user

imranaziz — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:37:30 GMT

I want to get latest updates for a specific user, based on the feeds he is subscribed too, the API allows to get latest updates for a specific feed what I want is to get the last 10 updates to all the contents the user is subscribed too. Any suggestion as to how to go about it?

Automatic login on an AD integrated Newsgator Enterpise setup

imranaziz — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:40:02 GMT

Hello All,

I have an AD integrated Newsgator enterpise install, it works fine, however what we want is that registered users be automatically logged in to the system without having to provide login details in a form, i.e. if the user is already logged into windows domain, they do not have to provide login details again on Newsgator. Is there a way to configure Newsgator to work like that ?

Regards,

Imran.

Method Implementation missing for the Newsgator Enterpise Server

imranaziz — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:01:54 GMT

I came across methods missing issue with the SOAP API of newsgator, it seems that few methods although listed in the NewsGator Enterprise documentation are not accessible using the web services client.

I generated the webservice reference using Visual Studio and it seems that although the missing methods are generated in the reference file but are not accessible somehow, I think the way they are implemented do not allow them to be exposed or something.

The methods in question are TagPost(postID, tag) , MarkPostRead etc in the PostItem WebService, I have noticed in the online docs that these methods do not exist in the Newsgator online setup

http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/api/Post.aspx

Is there a way that I can utilize these webservice methods ? I am using NewsGator Enterprise Server 2.2.0.250

Thanks a lot.
Imran

REST API setting read state

GarishKernels — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:17:15 GMT

Hello, I'm having some difficulty in setting the read state of an item using the REST API. I'm issuing:

curl http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/svc/PostItem.aspx?loc=Egress&r=3532702849 --user : --header "X-NGAPIToken: " --request POST

and I receive a 401.2 Access Denied. Is there something obvious that I'm doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Verify email sent

Ariel — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:14:59 GMT

Hello. I sent an email to Darryl, +/- 40 days ago, about the API, I just want to know if he received it.

Thanks,

Ariel

REST API - Question re: response to call to PostItem.aspx

Dan MacTough — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:31:56 GMT

Following up on my [url=http://forum.newsgator.com/Topic29865-8-1.aspx]previous post[/url], I see that each call to PostItem.aspx to submit post states results in a reponse with "the current state of all posts in any feed where read state has changed since the last sync."

This means that for every call, I receive a response of over 700kB, which takes anywhere from 1.5 to 4.5 seconds. That's a lot of bandwidth and time for a call that happens so frequently (in my case, to mark a post or group of posts as read).

I am not currently using any of the information in this response, so I'd love it if you could add a flag that would allow me to specify that I want the server to limit the response body to a simple "OK" or error, something like:

[quote]Request Format: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
[code]"loc=<locationName>&r=<postId>&u=<postId>&d=<postId>&q=<0|1>"[/code]
o loc – specify the location name to submit the read state changes (OPTIONAL)
o r – mark a post read (can be specified multiple times)
o u – mark a post uread (can be specified multiple times)
o d - mark a post deleted (can be specified multiple times)
o q - specify 1 to request a "quiet" reponse from the server (i.e., omit the current state of all posts since the last sync)[/quote]

Also, the draft of the new REST API documentation I have implies that this list of current posts should be limited to those that have changed since the last sync. However, I don't see how I can indicate when that happened. Should I add the last sync token from the location's OPML?

Thanks, all.

GetSubscriptionCounts only with unread # > 0 ?

Ariel — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:02:46 GMT

Hello. It seems that WS/SOAP /GetSubscriptionCounts returns only those feeds that have unread posts greater than cero. Is that by design?

Thanks

GZIP Support

Ariel — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:02:37 GMT

Is it possible to add support for compression (GZIP) to the API ( .asmx and .aspx )?
The results, for example calling to services.NG.com/.../GetSubscriptionList, can be more than 300KB :(

www.NG.com API seems to support gzip. but I can't make it works on services.NG.com.

Thanks

REST API Broken?

Dan MacTough — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:14:05 GMT

I haven't changed my code for a while. Sometime within the past two days, I noticed that post read state didn't seem to propagating across locations. That may have been a quirk, however.

More importantly, I am now getting 403 errors when I try to mark posts as read or post new clip items. Maybe other functions, too -- not sure.

Using REST API. Let me know if I can help track this down.

Thanks.

SOAP and REST API Documentation Updates (updated 11/01/07)

Jonathon McDougall — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:34:41 GMT

REST API Documentation Updates:

http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/api/NewsGatorRESTAPI.pdf

Updated: 02/08/08
Version: 1.5
See below for changes:

PostItem.aspx - Added sections on how to call clip and unclip posts API endpoints. To retrieve clippings, you will want to call Folder.aspx/clipcontents endpoint.

SOAP API Documentation Updates:

http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/api/default.aspx

We are currently researching a couple of different solutions for presenting the SOAP and REST API documentation for everyone. We are updating the SOAP documentation, but it will not be available until we implement a permanent home for the documentation. Until then, continue to reference the SOAP documentation from the link specified above.

Please refer to this post for future documentation updates.

New REST API Question

Ariel — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:06:27 GMT

Hello. Congratulations for the new REST API version!!

Is it possible to use in the new API methods like /Folder.asmx/GetUsersFolderListIncrementally ?

Can we use the REST API that is in www.newsgator.com/ngs/subscriber/services/ ?

And is there any way to make the //services.newsgator.com services to return JSON results? I tried with &fmt=json but didn't work.

Thanks!

REST API - cannot mark posts as read

Dan MacTough — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:56:18 GMT

I have not changed my code, which used to work, but I now cannot update the state of individual posts.

I am calling the following REST endpoint:
[code]http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/svc/PostItem.aspx[/code]

With the postdata in the following format:
[code]loc=Location%20Name&r=postID[/code]

The reponse I get is "AccessForbidden" with HTTP code 403, but I am passing the correct credentials, including my API token.

Bug or API change?

invoke AddSubscription web service using SOAP and ASP.NET

L8erG8er — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:51:16 GMT

I am trying to create a .aspx page that GETs the URL for a feed from a url parameter, then adds a subscription for the user to that feed. I would like to use the AddSubscription method of the Subscriptions web service on my NGES (1.4.2). The reason I am getting the feed url as a url query parameter is because I would like for all internal web sites that would like to add RSS Feed subscription buttons to their sites to have their button hit my page with their feed url attached, my aspx page would then add the subscription for the user using the web service endpoint shown below:

http://someservername.com/ngws/svc/Subscription.asmx

Has anyone done this? Do you have some sample code on how to accomplish this? I'm having problems with the user credentials as well as how to send the SOAP packet/document, I've already figured out that a simple HTTP-POST of HTTP-GET will not work for AddSubscription.

getting exception while using WSDL2JAVA

blewstream — Mon, 07 May 2007 22:25:36 GMT

Hi,

While trying to generate the stubs using the WSDL2JAVA, i am getting the following excepiton.

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError
at com.ibm.wsdl.util.xml.QNameUtils.newQName(Unknown Source)
at com.ibm.wsdl.util.xml.QNameUtils.matches(Unknown Source)
at com.ibm.wsdl.xml.WSDLReaderImpl.checkElementName(Unknown Source)
at com.ibm.wsdl.xml.WSDLReaderImpl.parseDefinitions(Unknown Source)
at com.ibm.wsdl.xml.WSDLReaderImpl.readWSDL(Unknown Source)
at com.ibm.wsdl.xml.WSDLReaderImpl.readWSDL(Unknown Source)
at com.ibm.wsdl.xml.WSDLReaderImpl.readWSDL(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.axis.wsdl.symbolTable.SymbolTable.populate(SymbolTable.jav
a:516)
at org.apache.axis.wsdl.symbolTable.SymbolTable.populate(SymbolTable.jav
a:495)
at org.apache.axis.wsdl.gen.Parser$WSDLRunnable.run(Parser.java:361)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

API - Paged results

Ariel — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:05:32 GMT

Hello. It will be really good if we could ask, using the API, “pages” of results. At this moment we can ask for posts inside a feed, and the max results count. But there is no way to specify from which post to start.

And I need a way to merge results inside folders (to get all posts from a folder), at this moment I’m using a proxy (in my server) to do the extra work I need, but I will end using more bandwidth (2x) than Newsgator, so at the end there is no reason to use NG API. Is there any way to get this functionality from NG?

Thanks!

Support - API - emails

Ariel — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:32:19 GMT

Hello. Which is the best email I should send questions about the NG API?

I sent some emails last 2-3 weeks (to support at newsgator dot com), just want to know if they were received.

All emails were responses to the email with subject "Re:(Case 82574) ..."

Thanks

wsdl2java and axis apis generated xml problem

subhsah — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 04:54:10 GMT

Hi friends
i am using axis 2 and wsdl2java tool , to invoke a weservice, wsdl2java generates java classes stubs for me , but when i give call to the specified webservice method with proper parameters it throws an exception from generated xml, stack trace is given below, so any buddy have any idea abt it or to see the generated xml by apache axis APIs.

AxisFault
faultCode: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}Client
faultSubcode:
faultString: Server was unable to read request. --> There is an error in XML document (14, 30). --> Guid should contain 32 digits with 4 dashes (xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx).
faultActor:
faultNode:
faultDetail:
{http://xml.apache.org/axis/}stackTrace: AxisFault
faultCode: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}Client
faultSubcode:
faultString: Server was unable to read request. --> There is an error in XML document (14, 30). --> Guid should contain 32 digits with 4 dashes (xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx).
faultActor:
faultNode:
faultDetail:

Server was unable to read request. --> There is an error in XML document (14, 30). --> Guid should contain 32 digits with 4 dashes (xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx).
at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.createFault(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:251)
at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.endElement(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:168)
at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.endElement(DeserializationContextImpl.java:1001)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.parse(DeserializationContextImpl.java:242)
at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:538)
at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:377)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2545)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2515)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2210)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2133)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1656)
at com.microsoft.www.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Connector.V2.ConnectorServiceV2SoapStub.insertAlerts(ConnectorServiceV2SoapStub.java:1044)
at com.oidev.bridgegate.mom.ClientService.getInsertAlerts(ClientService.java:120)
at com.oidev.bridgegate.mom.ClientService.main(ClientService.java:56)

Server was unable to read request. --> There is an error in XML document (14, 30). --> Guid should contain 32 digits with 4 dashes (xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx).
at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.createFault(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:251)
at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.endElement(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:168)
at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.endElement(DeserializationContextImpl.java:1001)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.parse(DeserializationContextImpl.java:242)
at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:538)
at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:377)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2545)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2515)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2210)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2133)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1656)
at com.microsoft.www.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Connector.V2.ConnectorServiceV2SoapStub.insertAlerts(ConnectorServiceV2SoapStub.java:1044)
at com.oidev.bridgegate.mom.ClientService.getInsertAlerts(ClientService.java:120)
at com.oidev.bridgegate.mom.ClientService.main(ClientService.java:56)

i am using the following jars in my class path :-
1)activation-1.1.jar
2)axis-ant.jar
3)commons-discovery-0.4.jar
4)commons-logging-1.1.jar
5)log4j-1.2.4.jar
6)saaj.jar
7)xercesImpl-2.8.1.jar
8)xml-apis-1.3.03.jar

basically i am giving call to a .net webservice from a java implementation classes..
any suggestion will greatly appritiated
regards
subhash chander
email:;- subhash.chander@daffodildb.com:)

More metadata

Ariel — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:57:02 GMT

Hello.

* is there any way to add my own metadata to an specific post?

* can I add metadata to Folders? (for example, I want to save the state of each folder (open or close)

Thanks!

FindFeeds Service

Ariel — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:33:14 GMT

Can I use the webservice:

http://www.newsgator.com/services/FindFeeds.asmx

which other services are available?

Thanks.

Ariel

NG API - Get Folder Content

Ariel — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:18:55 GMT

Hello

How can I get all posts that are inside a Folder?

for example I have:

</outline>

if I use GetNews(222) it works, because 222 is a feed.

but if I use GetNews(111) it doesn't work

Thanks

Issue in Using .Net WebService of MOM

subhsah — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 01:34:40 GMT

Hello friends:)
i have completed with a my work, using MOM(Microsoft Operation Manager) WebServices using java and WSDL2JAVA API
and my this connector is successfully Registered and initialized , and now when I am inserting new alerts to MOM using InsertAlert() method which works successfully and return success but just then when i try to get the new Alerts using getData() method returns nothing in resultset ???
Now The Major Doubts for Query ::-

1) Is it necessary to register any connector with Window registry at the time of Register in MOM with setup() method as per c# /.net example in sdk documentation

2) I have setted a specific Ruleid with the alert going to insert , so now how should i associate it with MOM to see this alert there ?

so now where i am going wrong with my implementation , any suggestion will greatly appriciated

subhash chander

Working with Folder.aspx and Clippings via REST API

Dan MacTough — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:27:02 GMT

I've reviewed the REST API documentation, and there does not appear to be any discussion of either the Folders endpoint or any of the Clippings functions.

Can I use REST to access the analog of the SOAP endpoint [url]http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/svc/Folder.asmx?op=GetClippingsFolderContents[/url]?

Can I use REST to add a post to one of my Clippings folders?

How?

Thanks.

download and browse all feeds and posts

bitbonk — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 02:23:49 GMT

I constantly have the problem that I try to find a feed entry that I have read once. As far as I understand it newsgator does not provide me with a built in facility to perform this task, wich is kind of a shame because I would consider this to be a useful and commonly needed feature. It would be really cool if it would be possible to constrain newsgator search to feeds that I am subscribed to. (Featurerequest). The only current solution I see right now is to download all my old feeds to my local machine and then browse them there. I was told that this is possible only with the newsgator API, wich brings me to my actual questions:

How do I download all feeds I am subscribed to and ALL of its entries ever "recorded" since I am subscribed to that feed?

What is the best approacht to perform a fulltext search on those downloaded feeds?

Adventures with Axis and NewsGator API

johnnyscouser — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:48:03 GMT

Seems like most people here have been using .Net to access the NG API. I am looking to create a java-based application, and thought I would post my findings here so someone else won't struggle like I have.

So far, I have a standalone java application that reads my list of locations - I know, baby steps...

I used Axis' wsdl2java to create the web service client classes, then wrote a simple class that in turn calls them.

Problem with REST API

gingerhendrix — Sat, 13 May 2006 18:55:40 GMT

Hi

I've been coding a simple javascript wrapper around the REST api, and for the most part seems really easy to use and well-developed. However, I can't get the Subscription.aspx/ call to work - I keep getting a 304 (Not modified) response, this would make sense if I was sending a sync token, but I'm not (and don't have one to send). Retrieving the global subscription list, and subscription counts work perfectly.

TIA,

Gareth

My Clippings Basics

mikebailey — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:56:12 GMT

Hi all.

I would like to begin using My Clippings to post my own stuff. I haven't cracked the basics of adding files to the My Clippings store. Do I need something beyond NewsGator Online? Thanks for answering a newbie.

GetPostID

Arvind — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 06:49:52 GMT

The GetPostID function refuses to work for me, the form you provide http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/svc/PostItem.asmx?op=GetPostId gives me an error and I experience the same error using my own form with the dev token and url fields in place...

Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: Developer Token Not Specified

which is something every API function is returning hence the massive problems people are experiencing.

License questions

dfuse — Sun, 07 May 2006 14:44:37 GMT

This is an email I sent a few days ago to support@newsgator.com but went unanswered. I'm hoping someone here can answer my questions?

Hello NewsGator team,

I'm currently developing a non-commercial application using your NewsGator API, and I have some questions about the API License Agreement. FYI, the application is a tray icon kinda like GMail Notifier that checks the newsfeeds from a NewsGator online subscription and shows a popup with the new unread feeds in it. So, here are my questions:

1. Could you explain a bit what is meant in article 1.3 License and Service Agreement? Does this mean I have to present the users of my application a license that they have to agree to?
2. Does article 1.6 also apply to non-commercial software? So when my little application is finished, I should first send it to NewsGator for approval before publishing any binaries?
3. Article 2.3 says to prominently display NewsGator's logo in a non-commercial application. So is there a place somewhere where graphical files of the NewsGator logo can be found?
4. I couldn't find anything about this in the license agreement, but is there a limit to how many times a day/hour/... an instance of a NewsGator client can poll the service? (Eg the minimum setting of polling in my tray icon is every 30minutes)

Kind regards and thanks for the wonderful service,
Nico

Problem with FeedDemon's processing of Atom feeds?

xmlhacker — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:51:08 GMT

I assume this is the place to post bugs as I can't seem to locate a bug db of any sort...

In response to a post regarding ASP.NET-based sample code for the latest release of Saxon (8.7.1) Steven Black writes

>> Are you aware that those of us who read your blog in an aggregator such >> as FeedDemon see all the HTML markup? Makes it very hard to read, and >> hard to judge whether a particular post is worth leaving the aggregator >> for a closer look.

Please see the above link for the follow-up responses.

Thanks!

Update: It occured to me that this may not be a problem with Atom, and instead RSS 2.0. Please see my recent follow-up response for more detail.

Rest doc?

Jason — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:50:46 GMT

I see plenty of soap doc, is there some rest doc also?

How to retrieve older posts

Yeep — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:13:57 GMT

I've been looking at the API, but I can't see a way to get older posts from a feed. The ones not in the current feed anymore, but in the 'archive'. Similiar to "view older articles" in NG Online. Is this possible with the API?