myFeedz Development Blog

With today’s update, we declare the first version of the API fully implemented. The new features allow you to issue two new query types: claimed feeds and saved articles.

Claimed feeds

This feature allows you to track your writing habits, which can spread over a number of different web sites. To take advantage of it, you need to add to your profile all the feeds you contribute to, then “claim” them by checking the green flag to their right, on the feeds page.

Note that the claiming process doesn’t force you to actually prove you’re the author, as there aren’t any bonus points for contributing to more feeds :). This is merely a way to differentiate the feeds you contribute to from those you just read, as you can later query them through the API. Example uses:

• if you run a blog network, you can combine all feeds and display a list of articles from all blogs onto your pages;
• if you contribute to a number of different blogs, you can get a tag cloud of your posts from all sites, tracking everything you write about.

Saved articles

One of the nice features of myFeedz is the ability to save articles for later reading, like newspaper clippings. We’ve also made it possible to get the list of saved articles through the API. You can use this as a “currently reading” feature on your weblog.

See the filtering and sorting section from the API docs for exact implementation details.

Performance improvements

Together with the bigger updates to the API, we also worked pretty hard to speed up the site for faster load times — especially the homepage should load visibly faster now.

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