Automate Google Reader
August 4th, 2008 · by David Bradley
I add a lot of RSS newsfeeds to my Google Reader account. But, if you choose Google as your subscribe option you are usually presented with two choices: Add to Google Homepage or Add to Google Reader. I never use Homepage, so I added a Greasemonkey script (Auto Add Feed to Google Reader, it’s cleverly named) to my Firefox install to skip this page.
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Slartibartfarst // Sep 1, 2008 at 9:18 pm
You might be able to take advantage of this comment as a process improvement and for greater efficiency in subscribing to feeds or selecting individual website pages to your feed (adding notes at the same time, if wanted).
I use Firefox with Better Gmail 2 and Better GReader from lifehacker. In my bookmarks, I have two bookmarks at the top of my tree, each with java script in the “location” field of the properties. I got both of these from Google Reader help somewhere; the “Subscribe…” is also referenced in Reader’s Settings|Goodies.
1. Subscribe…
javascript:var%20b=document.body;var%20GR________bookmarklet_domain=’http://www.google.com’;if(b&&!document.xmlVersion){void(z=document.createElement(’script’));void(z.src=’http://www.google.com/reader/ui/subscribe-bookmarklet.js’);void(b.appendChild(z));}else{location=’http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/’+encodeURIComponent(location.href)}
Note in Reader
javascript:var%20b=document.body;var%20GR________bookmarklet_domain=’http://www.google.com’;if(b&&!document.xmlVersion){void(z=document.createElement(’script’));void(z.src=’http://www.google.com/reader/ui/link-bookmarklet.js’);void(b.appendChild(z));}else{}
Hope this is of use to someone.
Can you explain what these do, please? My process is simply to click the rss icon in the address of any sites to which I wish to subscriber, I have Google set as default in Firefox to read RSS, and the Greasemonkey script auto loads Reader and adds. Are your js links quicker?
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