Google Releases Feed API

Posted on April 18, 2007
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The Google AJAX API team has announced a genuinely useful Feed API that gives an Ajax developer the ability to access feeds, cached in the fast Google edge cache where appropriate, from across the web using a simple JavaScript API.

This is similar to Pipes but uses Javascript rather than a visual editor to manipulate the actual feeds. We’re building something similar, which at first I resisted because I believe the visual editor opens the services to more users but Rod is right that the Javascipt capabilities result in something that is just more powerful.

You are going to see more utilization of feeds as data sources in applications, it certainly something we’re working on (and will be releasing soon).

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