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Ivan Zuzak to Ivan's feed, FriendFeed API
Is there a *single* FF API feed through which we can fetch *all* contributions across FriendFeed (posts, likes, comments, DMs... everything) for a specific user? Currently, there are separate feeds for posts, comments and likes (the latter two are also combined through the discussions feed filter).
August 12
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Search can build a feed encompassing all posts/likes/comments: http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Benjamin Golub
But this will only fetch the last 630 entries or so? Also, do you mean that this is the FF API that Ivan asked about… retrieving threads from scraped search results??????
- ianf ⌘
ianf: there is a search API too, sorry for being confusing, linking to the HTML version just makes it easier to see :) http://friendfeed-api.com/v2... is the API feed. You can go back 20000 entries there.
- Benjamin Golub
That's a cool workaround, thanks Ben! Btw. this search includes entries from feeds that I have imported into groups (with the description imported as the first comment), not into my personal feed. Any ideas on how to exclude those?
- Ivan Zuzak
It's a known limitation with search. You can exclude the group by adding -group:username to the query.
- Benjamin Golub
Thanks, Ben, for the clarification. The example given by you imports at most 30 instances of each: http://friendfeed-api.com/v2... Am I correct in assuming that in this fashion one can extract at most the last 630 own entries (of any kind) in the ff-datebase? [Amend moved to its own comment].
- ianf ⌘
I think the way to get to the full 20000 is to use "start" and "num" query parameters, as with fetching normal feeds.
- Ivan Zuzak
ianf: Correct, you can use the "start" parameter to go back 20000 entries. Add &start=1000 for example to that URL. You can change the number you get at once with the "num" parameter (for example: add &num=100 to get 100 at a time).
- Benjamin Golub
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The near-instantaneous, but not quite nature of the FF makes that replies to comments arrive while the comment is being edited or amended. So here's what I earlier wrote upon realizing my error in API thinking: AMEND: I get it now, this is how you want us to do it, the hard way: the sevenhundredth entry of yours: http://friendfeed-api.com/v2... counted in reverse order [start=0 is the latest entry; num=number of entries to be fetched starting at "start"). New content: I still do not understand why the HTML search version is artificially capped at 630 (=21 "screen worths") of entries here.
- ianf ⌘