venus-ng is a fork of Venus which uses Newsgator to provide both the reading list and the feeds.
This means that venus-ng will, at a particular point in time, give you an accurate representation of your currently unread Newsgator feed entries. Here is the output from the newsgator.com web aggregator and venus-ng:
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venus-ng does not mark feeds as read on the Newsgator server when in retrieves them, although that will likely get added when I have a test Newsgator account set up.
It is currently a fork because I’ve had to modify feedparser.py in a few ways which probably stop it working with other data sources:
- I’ve changed the way it deals with passed-in urllib2 handlers
- I’ve commented out the HTTP 401 response behaviour (since I’m passing it an HTTPBasicAuthHandler already)
- It always passes through an additional X-NGAPIToken HTTP header containing a Newsgator API key
As far as I can tell, the handler refactoring should be fine, but the 401-handling and extra HTTP header seem like a deal-breakers.
I have no idea how to stop the 401 handler in _FeedURLHandler() conflicting with that in urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler.
I suspect there is a good solution in subclassing urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler to provide the additional Newsgator HTTP header but I’ve not worked out some of the details yet.
You can get the latest source via bzr get http://philwilson.org/code/venus-ng – there is a sample newsgator.ini file in the /examples directory, but it relies on you already having a Newsgator account and some feeds set up.
Once I’d traced through the Venus code to semi-understand it, this was quite straightforward to do (deal-breaking fork-causers aside) so were Google Reader to introduce an official API it would not take long to integrate.
