Google Reader Shared Items Don’t Display in RSS Widget

cityinvincible · Member · Apr 17, 2007 at 4:58 pm
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I’m trying to use the RSS widget for my shared Google Reader items, but it doesn’t work. I typed in this feed address: http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/02807664493882265625/state/com.google/broadcast

When I close the RSS widget window and hit save, it shows the title of the feed on my site, but no shared items. The widget doesn’t say there’s a problem with the feed though.

Is it because this is an atom feed? Anyone have any clues?
drmike · Member · Apr 17, 2007 at 6:21 pm
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That’s an Atom feed. Something in the back of my mind says the RSS widgets don’t support Atom. Can’t remember for sure.

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cityinvincible · Member · Apr 17, 2007 at 8:31 pm
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Yes, I found out that WordPress.com does not support Atom 1.0, only 0.3. But I found a work around using feed43.com. It allows you to make an RSS feed out of any site, even ones that don’t have them.

It took a bit to figure out, but I got it to work. The “My Selected News” on my site (cityinvincible.wordpress.com) is from my shared items in Google Reader. Much easier than using the News Vine widget.
drmike · Member · Apr 17, 2007 at 11:39 pm
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Actually Mark just emailed me and said that the widget does support Atom. Not sure which one though. The issue appears to be the large number of issues (but not errors) the feed has:

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Good catch with the work around. I do something like that on my own WPMu site.
raincoaster · Member · Apr 17, 2007 at 11:45 pm
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That’s a sweet workaround! Very useful, thanks.
spector2 · Member · Nov 6, 2007 at 10:44 pm
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I asked Jeff (the great blogger from cityinvincible) for the details on how he setup feed43. For all those who might want to know, below are the pertinent parts of his reply. It worked for me and I hope it works for you.

Thanks Jeff!

Here’s what I filled in for each field on Feed43. Don’t put anything
in the fields I don’t mention

-Step 1-
Address:
Put in your google shared reader address. Mine is
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/13740949539921150409/state/com.google/broadcast

-Step 2-
Global Search Pattern:
{%}

Item (repeatable) Search Pattern:
<h2 class=”item-title”>{*}
{*}
{%}{*}

-Step 3-
Feed Title:
Whatever you want

Feed Link:
Mine is http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/13740949539921150409/state/com.google/broadcast, but
put in yours again.

Feed Description:
Whatever you want

Item Title Template:
{%2}

Item Link Template:
{%1}
timethief · Member · Nov 6, 2007 at 11:44 pm
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Thanks so much for sharing. :)
spector2 · Member · Nov 7, 2007 at 12:30 am
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For anyone seeing gReader looks in my blog, checkout http://spectorsthoughts.wordpress.com/.
kindagroovy · Member · Dec 4, 2007 at 12:22 pm
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I have tried several times, in vain, to duplicate the success of spector2 in displaying a g-reader feed on my blog. I have followed the feed43 workaround, with the above steps 1-3, to no avail. I get generic links which lead nowhere or google server errors. Rather frustrating.
kindagroovy · Member · Dec 5, 2007 at 7:14 am
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I figured out the problem. No need for the workaround, after all.
timethief · Member · Dec 5, 2007 at 6:22 pm
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Hi there,
Would you care to share how you resolved this so others can benefit from your learning?
kindagroovy · Member · Dec 6, 2007 at 12:49 am
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Oh yeah. Sorry.

In your google reader home page, simply click on the shared items tab.
You will see this…
“They are available as a page at http://www.google.com/reader/shared/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (and there’s a feed too)”

Right click on the underlined link “a feed”-not the rss icon- and save that link location.
Paste it into your rss widget, save and you’re done.
timethief · Member · Dec 6, 2007 at 2:13 am
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@kindagroovy
Thanks a lot for sharing this information. I’ll bookmark it.
Happy blogging :)

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