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Getting twine's protected RSS feeds into google reader or other apps.

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Getting twine's protected RSS feeds into google reader or other apps.
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Use feedburner along with your twine username and password to burn your twine Items feeds and gain open access to the feed data. Use the following format: http://username:password@twinefeedurl
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http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home

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    • Tom Tenney Tom Tenney
      21 months ago


      very cool. make sure you leave the "http://" out of the twinefeedurl, though, or it will generate an error.
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    • Nova Spivack Nova Spivack
      21 months ago


      If you solve this please add it to http://www.twine.com/twine/tools-that-work-with-twine with instructions
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      • Al Wood Al Wood
        21 months ago


        I managed to get it to work and posted it on the twine requested here:

        http://www.twine.com/item/1152143zy-42v/getting-twine-protected-feeds-into-a-reader-using-feedburner
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        • Al Wood Al Wood
          21 months ago


          It worked when I set it up. Unfortunately, it does not seem to be working now. The feed validator does not seem to validate the feed. When I use just the path described above and type into the browser it does not get into Twine.

          Any suggestions anybody?
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          • Al Wood Al Wood
            21 months ago


            I get this message when trying to validate the original feed in Feedburner:

            *

            Server returned HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized

            And the address turns up in the URL entry space without the initial name and password, even when I have entered them.

            I deleted the whole thing and re-entered it. The initial feed turns up in netvibes, but it does not update at all.
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            • James Todd James Todd
              21 months ago


              I was able to add my home Twine feed into FeedBurner by providing a fully qualified url, eg:

              http://james:password@twine.com/feed/atom/entries/

              FeedBurner is still "analyzing" the feed (taking off the bubble wrap and such) but it looks as though it was accepted and when looking at the exported xml it looked valid to me.
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              • Al Wood Al Wood
                21 months ago


                Thanks, James. I tried that too with my own home Twine feed and it is accepted at first by Feedburner and then it sends to Netvibes ok. However, when I check the validity under 'Troubleshootize' and 'Original Feed Validity' the same thing happens and I get the same error message - 401. It also does the same thing with the address - only 'http://twine.com/feed/atom/entries/' comes up, i.e. without the initial user name and password, which were included in the original feed address. The same thing happens with various other similar permutations I have tried. The initial feed seems to be accepted but fails to update as it is invalid.
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              • Al Wood Al Wood
                21 months ago


                Good news, James. Subsequent to my last post saying that Feedburner was still not validating the original feeds, it does, nevertheless, seem to be updating them. Both the 'interests' home Twine feed I added along the lines you suggested now, and my previous latest version of the 'all items' feed I had set up earlier now seem to be updating properly.

                I won't count my chickens just yet. I shall wait till tomorrow and see that they continue to update, but it looks like they are now working. It seems that the 'validate feeds' troubleshooter in Feedburner is not very trustworthy.

                Many thanks indeed for all your help. I shall give you full credit if/when I post this back on the 'tools that work with twine' twine.
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                • James Todd James Todd
                  21 months ago


                  excellent! tenacity usually wins in the end :)

                  don't worry about credit and such. we all learn in the process.

                  best,

                  - james
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            • James Todd James Todd
              21 months ago


              That's the error you'll get when the the provided credentials are not valid or are non-existent.

              Each feed client/service varies a bit on the level of support for authenticated feeds, ranging from it is supported intrinsicly, you can force authentication by providing the credentials in the url or not supported at all.
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          • James Todd James Todd
            21 months ago


            In order to validate a twine feed, I copy the content locally, using curl, eg:

            % curl -v -L http://user:password@twine.com/feed/atom/entries/foo

            I then use a local install of Feed Validator (see http://feedvalidator.org) to validate the local twine feed copy.

            This will at least help validate twin feed conformance. I am very keen on keeping on top of any feed conformance viloations, so when you run into them, do pass it our way.
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    • Florian Konnertz Florian Konnertz
      21 months ago


      does not work yet for me.
      i tried:

      http://groovehunter:xxx@www.twine.com/my-items-all#
      http://groovehunter:xxx@twine.com/my-items-all#
      http://groovehunter:xxx@twine.com/my-items-all

      The URL you entered does not appear to be a valid feed. We encountered the following problem: Unknown feed format encountered (The root element is [Element: ])
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      • James Todd James Todd
        21 months ago


        I suspect you will want to enter the feed url, not the url of the page that contains a feed(s). I'm unsure about this, though, as some feed readers are able to detect feeds when given a page. If I'm correct, you will want to try the following:

        http://groovehunter:xxx@www.twine.com/feed/atom/entries/my-items-all
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    • mcfearsome mcfearsome
      21 months ago


      Using FeedBurner worked for me!

      Here's a capture:

      Cool

    • Al Wood Al Wood
      21 months ago


      Jesse, Feedburner worked initially for me as well, with Netvibes, but it doesn't update. Did you get yours to update with Google Reader?
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      • shal shal
        19 months ago


        It is probably because these aggregators forget authenticating information after a while (but not all the time ... weird).

        I've still have to try using feedburner for adding content to my netvibes so that I can find out whether my twine password is kept or not that way.
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    • Al Wood Al Wood
      21 months ago


      This was put up on Cool a few days ago by Bob Stewart but there seemed to be some problems with it. Nova asked people to put it up here if we got it working. After a lot of help from various people, principally James Todd, I managed to get it working properly. As James suggested, this is the address you put into Feedburner for your home 'all interests' feed.

      http://name:password@twine.com/feed/atom/entries/

      I was then able to read it via Netvibes. The problem is that Feedburner does not seem to validate the feed so when you check the validation you will get a 401 error message. Nevertheless, it does seem to work.

      Good luck!
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    • Nova Spivack Nova Spivack
      19 months ago


      Wow -- great hack!
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    • hucheng hucheng
      19 months ago


      You can use Yahoo pipes to do a similar things, also Netvibes supports authenticated feeds out of the box.
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