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Tim Hoeck posted a link

Here is the new API methods for lists

August 27 at 1:56 pm - Link

Jon Galloway posted a message

“So... what's new or on the way for FriendFeed? I'm happy with the stability, but haven't noticed any new updates since the media play button a little while ago.”

August 13 at 2:27 pm - Link

Jon, there aren't any big announcements recently, but I would subscribe to the FriendFeed News room which is run by the FF team. http://friendfeed.com/rooms/fr... - Alan Le

Ontario Emperor posted a link

Google Groups discussion on recent (and not so recent) "limit exceeded" messages

July 29 at 8:32 am - Link

mioNews, July 13-16: http://groups.google.com/group... - Ontario Emperor

Limits?, July 21-23: http://groups.google.com/group... - Ontario Emperor

directeur posted a message

“3 more features and I will not annoy you anymore! :)”

July 25 at 6:37 pm - via NoiseRiver - Link

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1) Subscribe/Unsubscribe to users join/unjoin rooms - directeur via NoiseRiver

2) Retrieve entries by URL - directeur via NoiseRiver

3) Handle retrieving multiple entries and multiple profiles differently: Instead of throwing an exception when auth is required just put None in the entry or profile that needs authentication - directeur via NoiseRiver

Thanks you! I'm almost sure that you'll release them very soon :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

As an fftogo user, I also endorse directeur's first request. - Ontario Emperor

Patrick Lightbody posted a message

“mioNews has been down for almost a week because of a "limit-exceeded" error. Bret was responsive the first time I reported it, but FriendFeed has been radio silent since. Our app makes about 24K API calls a day. Can others share a rough estimate of how many calls they make per day?”

July 17 at 3:06 pm - Link

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Am I just going way over the limit??? - Patrick Lightbody

Anyone? - Patrick Lightbody

directeur posted a message

“First feature begging here :) Provide an API method to retrieve an entry and its comments (and medias) by providing its ID”

July 7 at 10:56 am - via NoiseRiver - Link

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Why? So we can display an entry page with our custom permalinks. So we also can use ajax methods to retrieve content per entry - directeur via NoiseRiver

Yes. Yes. YES! Please don't make us resort to html parsing for comments and json parsing for likes. - Yuvi

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the ID comes back in the JSON feed, so I am not sure what you are asking. I think the comments come back too, but I would need to check my code when I get home. - Rob Diana

I would really enjoy this too. I wrote an email to the list the other day. The reason it would be useful for me is that I present the order of articles in a way that the normal APIs do not. Having an ability to query by ID (or list of IDs) would allow me to get the freshest list of content in real time. Until then, I have to cache large amounts of data locally. - Patrick Lightbody

directeur - what do you do currently? Do you cache the JSON results locally like I do? - Patrick Lightbody

Rob, yes you're right but this is true if the entry you're talking about is in the current "version" of the feed. How do you refer to an entry (and its content) that is 4 months old? - directeur via NoiseRiver

Patrick: I do some caching yes, but it doesn't go far... I mean, I try to process everything at once and reduce the "va-et-vient" - directeur via NoiseRiver

I'm sorry to re-ask for this. Is it doable? pretty please? :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

Yes please. Would like to "deep link" into StumbleRead and display a single post. - Adam Loving

@Adam Loving (adaml): Actually it's available now (retrieving an entry by its ID) look here: http://groups.google.com/group... :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

@directeur - THANKS! - Adam Loving

@directeur - THANKS! - Yuvi

Adam Loving posted a message

“Would love to see an API call for rolling up FF posts by URL. This would allow us to create a widget for a blog post that would display FF posts and comments on that post.”

July 22 at 5:16 pm - Link

This would offer many many features! I asked for the same thing yesterday :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

Alan Le posted a message

“Need an app that will recommend Rooms based on the rooms that your friends are in.”

July 10 at 8:40 am - Link

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directeur posted a message

“Question needs answer: Are all nicknames in FriendFeed lowercase? :)”

July 9 at 5:50 pm - via NoiseRiver - Link

Yes - Ross Miller

Thank you Ross! I have users that have troubles logging in because of this! So all I have to do is lowercase the input :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

Hao Chen posted a message

“Sup, hackers.”

July 7 at 10:50 am - Link

Benjamin Golub posted a link

bgolub's fftogo at master — GitHub

July 7 at 10:40 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Alan Le liked this

fftogo source code - Benjamin Golub via Bookmarklet

Especially useful for anyone wanting to use friendfeed's provided Python module on Google App Engine. - Benjamin Golub

Casey Muller posted a message

“This is a test entry to see if comments are working”

June 18 at 11:31 am - Link

Test from the API - Casey Muller

Test from curl - Casey Muller

Any doc about the rooms api Casey? For eg. retrieving the entries in a room? - directeur

Just figured out how, it's easy actually :) a little method to add to friendfeed.py and I was done! - directeur