Access authenticated feeds in Google Reader using Yahoo Pipes
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a Google Reader fanatic. Nothing else handles RSS as smoothly as it does.
The one gigantic failing of Google Reader is that you cannot receive password-protected feeds that request user authentication. I think that sucks. A lot.
So I created a Yahoo Pipe to work around this failing.
Just go to the appropriate pipe and run it. It will prompt you for the feed’s URL, your username and your password. Enter all that information, and you’ll get your own private URL you can use in Google Reader (or any other http:auth-challenged RSS reader).
Warning! Feeds accessed in this way are open to everybody, so if you’re using NewsGator or Bloglines or some other service that shares your feeds with the world, be sure to set the feed un-shared. Otherwise you might get your private access summarily cut off when it’s determined that your personal password is effectively being broadcast to the world. Also, your Yahoo Pipes URL will contain your login and password, so even if you’re okay with giving the world access to premium content, you may not be so pleased about sharing your password with the same unwashed masses. You have been warned. Caveat RSS reader.
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I cant seem to get the pipe to work with Google Feeds
I created a dummy Google account and started using Google’s Web history, you can get a authenticated feed of this info, but I tried using your Yahoo pipe to clean the secure off and make it public, but I keeps coming up blank. Any thoughts?
Re: I cant seem to get the pipe to work with Google Feeds
Without knowing the feed, the username and the password you’re trying to use, I could even begin to troubleshoot this. Can you view the feed using, say, NetNewsWire or an equivalent feed reader that DOES support http-auth, using the same username and password? Are you html-encoding any special characters? (Most Google accounts use an email address for authentication, so you’ll need to, at the very least, encode the @ symbol.)
Here is the info
i would have posted it before, I just wasn’t sure if you checked the comments for what have you. Here go’s thisisadummyaccount redwards%40coactlab.com https://www.google.com/history/?output=rss
I can view the http-auth feed with firefox no problem.
Interesting. Questions: Do
Interesting. Questions:
Do you have to go to the pipe page for each feed / username / password you require, or can you run it dynamically? By which I mean can you just edit the URL you get from one run of the pipe to replace the username and password and site details that can be run dynamically another time?
Also, for each run of the pipe, does a feed get stored somewhere? In other words, is it really safe to run this pipe — or will the username and password details be stored somewhere on yahoo for someone in the know to read? If it just generates a URL with the username and password in it for display to the person requesting it, in their browser, that’s fine — that can be kept private.
Thanks!
Mike
I just launched a service
I just launched a service called Free My Feed that will help users subscribe to authenticated feeds in Google Reader.
http://freemyfeed.com
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