Google Reader Notes to Twitter
Thomas Menguy | March 2, 2009I’m a heavy Google Reader user, and we use it a lot internally at Open-Plug to share technical articles. I’ve already made a Yahoo Pipes (my Pipes are here) to aggregate the Google reader shared feeds of some of my coworkers into one feed we read each other to not read the same article too often.
Yahoo pipes is sooo great , and twitter seems to take momentum so I’ve decided to build a pipe that would automatically tweets the item I’ve read and on which I’ve put a note, so the work I do reading article is immediately available via twitter.
As always just before doing the work, I’ve Googled a little, and of course someone has made it already Internet is fantastic.
Here is the link: http://mat.su/tweeting-google-reader-notes/ basically:
- A yahoo pipe is filtering the Google shared page (check the original here http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=PJ3jpty83RG9IVzUBR50VA )
- This feed is sent to the twitterfeed service (beware, it used OpenID: as you have a google account, simply select google as an openIdD provider right in the twitterfeed login page, icon on the right were you need to enter the openID…well openID as a usability point of view simply sucks)
- Twitterfeed then posts on Twitter (shortening URL, etc)
My pipe is working, I’m waiting for the first twitterfeed update.
Update: it works like a charm! This is ubber geek, I tweet from Google reader, well back to work!
Update 2: Reworked the pipe, simplifying it, perhaps I should remove the title to leave only the note?
Google Reader Notes to Twitter…: Nice Yahoo pipes usage, easy
Thomas Menguy | March 3, 2009Google Reader Notes to Twitter…: Nice Yahoo pipes usage, easy tweeting! http://tinyurl.com/b7u8aw
Stupid question: why not directly put teh Google Shared Items
Guilhem | March 3, 2009Stupid question: why not directly put teh Google Shared Items URL into twitterfeed ?
You're never stupid Gouilly! In fact I'm afraid of the volume
Thomas Menguy | March 3, 2009You’re never stupid Gouilly!
In fact I’m afraid of the volume posted on twitter …. but if you want I can make you a pipe that posts:
title + url of all your shared items, adding your notes if you have added some.
Would be OK for you? I’ll look at how many stuff I share to see if I won’t overflood my twitter account …
Tweets overflow? Looking for social filtering? Check Thomas' great idea:
Nicolas Sauvage | March 3, 2009Tweets overflow? Looking for social filtering? Check Thomas’ great idea: http://is.gd/lAce – could be the start of something useful and big!
This is cool, I was thinking for some time that
Frédéric Martinent | March 3, 2009This is cool, I was thinking for some time that it would be great to be able to tweet directly from Google Reader…
Do you know if it would be possible to use the “Google Reader note” as the tweet body instead of the original article title?
Hi Frederic, yes and this is the case with my current
Thomas Menguy | March 3, 2009Hi Frederic,
yes and this is the case with my current pipe :
-it tweets the article title + tinyURL if no note
-it tweets the article title + tinyURL + the note if its available
Do you need some help on it?
Tweeting directly from Google Reader thanks to @tmenguy http://cli.gs/VS2Yv3
Frederic Martinent | March 3, 2009Tweeting directly from Google Reader thanks to @tmenguy http://cli.gs/VS2Yv3
I was dreaming about this for months, @tmenguy did it:
Frederic Martinent | March 4, 2009I was dreaming about this for months, @tmenguy did it: Tweet directly from Google Reader: http://cli.gs/Hq2vmB
Google Reader Notes to Twitter : http://tmenguy.free.fr/TechBlog/?p=358
Jean-François Amadei | March 7, 2009Google Reader Notes to Twitter : http://tmenguy.free.fr/TechBlog/?p=358
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