Like many on the list I'm a heavy chrome and rss user. Though the demise of Google Reader is no great surprise I was grumpy that Google removed the RSS Subscription extension from the Chrome webstore.
I've forked Google's extension, updated it and loaded back into the Chrome webstore.
Added support for Feedly, NewsBlur and The Old Reader. Removed Google Reader, iReader, My Yahoo
Awesome, thanks! Can this also bounce the subscribe request to an offline reader like RSSOwl? If not, how hard would it be to implement something like that?
At this point, it seems like working with Google technologies (like Chrome and reader) is turning more into doing a uphill battle where you have to hack your way to an end, as opposed to just doing what you want.
At that point, why not just use something open and welcoming instead?
Currently Chrome is not an open-source browser. Chromium is.
As for Chrome, unless you are willing to go through hoops, it is only willing to install extensions from the Chrome Web Store.
You are now jumping through hoops to reinstall something you had installed which Google removed from their web-store.
Now Google which is your application (Chrome) and service (Reader)-provider, is working against you instead of enabling you. It didn't use to be that way, but now Google has changed.
That's the uphill battle. That's the not enabling part. That's the not open and welcoming. Contrast that to for instance Firefox and you will find a completely different picture.
Firefox has no mixed interests here, and that means they wont pull moves like this.
I asked this question on SO the other day, perhaps someone here knows a solution ...
For the past few years I've been using Google Reader to archive my Twitter and Facebook history for various reasons. Obviously yesterday's news really threw a wrench in everything.
My problem ...
I need a way to export every 'article' from 3 subscriptions I have (not just the subscription URL) and import those into a good RSS reader (open to suggestions). Anyone have any advice?
facebook and twitter both allow you to export data directly from them in a human & machine readable format (nice html pages along with json)... why would you use rss instead?
Assuming you've installed the extension you can grab its source from Chrome .config directory
* which I imported and updated to github: https://github.com/justinkelly/chrome-rss
The actual original source in SVN/Git may already be public but i've no idea where it is - somewhere deep in the chromium repo??
@crazysim - this is from the source of the extension
<!--
* Copyright (c) 2009 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. Use of this
* source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be found in the
* LICENSE file.
-->
<!--
* Copyright (c) 2009 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. Use of this
* source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be found in the
* LICENSE file.
-->
Like many on the list I'm a heavy chrome and rss user. Though the demise of Google Reader is no great surprise I was grumpy that Google removed the RSS Subscription extension from the Chrome webstore.
I've forked Google's extension, updated it and loaded back into the Chrome webstore.
Added support for Feedly, NewsBlur and The Old Reader. Removed Google Reader, iReader, My Yahoo
Also code is now up on github
* https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-subscription-e...
* https://github.com/justinkelly/chrome-rss
Cheers
Justin